‘She always cared about everybody’
Family, friends mourn Nicolette Law with candlelight vigil
Natalie Law is comforted by family members as she mourns her daughter, Nicolette Law, during a memorial vigil Tuesday.
More than 30 people, some holding pink and light blue balloons, gathered Tuesday night around a cluster of candles and flowers in the Whitehall Township Walmart parking lot where a 20-year-old woman was killed last week.
A photograph of the woman, Nicolette Law of Allentown, pictured with her family, hung above the memorial, adorned with balloons with “We love you” written on them.
Mourners hugged and sobbed as they listened to remembrances of Law.
“She loved everyone. She always smiled and made you laugh,” Law’s mother, Natalie Law of Allentown, said through tears. “She always cared about everybody. More than she cared about herself . ... She was so beautiful.” Nicolette Law’s aunt, Erica Hampton of Allentown, said. “She had a contagious smile. She was helpful. She was inquisitive. She wanted to know everything. ... She loved music and TikTok.”
Hampton said Law wanted to help others.
“She wanted to be a nurse. She liked to help the elderly,” she said. “She was raised by her grandmother, who died a couple years ago. I think she missed that connection, so that inspired her to want to help others and make people smile.”
Anthony Chatman of Allentown said he came because he and his wife, who works at the Walmart, wanted to pay their respects and show support for
Law’s family.
“It’s senseless for someone that young to lose their life,” he said.
According to authorities, Law was at the Walmart with the father of a child for a planned custody exchange with the child’s mother. Edward Joel Rosario-Jimenez, 23, of Whitehall Township arrived with the child’s mother. An argument broke out and Rosario-Jimenez shot Law and the child’s father, authorities said.
Rosario-Jimenez was charged Sunday with criminal homicide, attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault and carrying a firearm without a license. He’s in Lehigh County Jail without bail.
Hampton, Law’s aunt, decried the violence.
“Allentown, Whitehall, we’ve got to do better,” she said. “We have to come up with better ways of solving problems than to shoot people.”