Police described her as an innocent bystander, hit by a bullet meant for someone else. Her friends and family gathered at a church Tuesday night, near the spot where she was killed, to remember another life lost.
The shooting occurred Saturday evening near Serenity House, an apartment complex where Ervin lived with her mother and which is part of Marian House, a women's shelter run by the Sisters of Mercy and Sisters of Notre Dame.
The commander of the Northern District police station and the homicide detective assigned to the case joined her relatives to denounce the killer and reflect on a aspiring nursing student. The Sun's Justin Fenton (his photo is at left) reports: