Hundreds of residents of Amqui, Que., fell silent Thursday night outside the Saint-Benoît-Joseph-Labre Church.
Some bowed their heads and clutched candles as the tightly knit community gathered for a vigil to honour those who were killed and injured when a pickup truck slammed into a group of pedestrians on Monday.
After a moment of silence, the crowd sang Ave Maria and held candles up to the sky for the nine people who were hurt and the two men — Gérald Charest, 65, and Jean Lafrenière, 73 — who were killed in what police say was a deliberate act.
The parish distributed some 200 candles to attendees, who
