Messages of Love, Calls for Justice After Bicyclist's Death

Community members in one Brooklyn neighborhood came together Monday to mourn a 25-year-old bike messenger who was hit and killed by a large truck last week. 

Aurilla Lawrence was riding her bicycle late Thursday when she hit and killed by a tanker truck late Thursday in near Broadway and Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg, the NYPD said. The driver of the truck never stopped.

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Lawrence as pronounced dead at the scene. She had injuries all over her body, police said. 

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Amid the grieving Monday was a call for the community to do more after five cyclists have already been killed citywide. Last year the number was 10..

 "We’re sending a message to the city and to the mayor," one man said at the vigil. "We need to start taking action proactively before people are killed."

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A person of interest and a vehicle have been located.

"We’re going to throw everything we got to find the perpetrators of these crimes," Mayor de Blasio said.

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