FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — A Frankfort family wants people to share a random act of kindness Thursday in honor of Elaina Mammen, who was shot and killed in Lexington in December.
"I remember screaming and crying and I — still wake up wishing it wasn't real and the agony of realizing it is real," she says. "I wish it would have been me. I raised my girls... should have been me, not her."
Mammen remembers her daughter for what she did for others.
"She loved nature and she had a heart of gold. She gave love out like it was an endless stream of water," she says.
It's a love that Heather and her twin sister Ruthie are now trying to share. They know that they'll go to a restaurant tomorrow and pay for everyone's desserts. It's the day that would have been Elaina's 20th birthday.
It's a project they're calling "Go Light Your World".
"It doesn't have to be about money, it can just be praying with someone or giving them a smile when they are sad. It's a way we can honor her and spread that unconditional love to those around us that so desperately need it," says Ruthie.
The Mammen's ask to email them at keepmovinon@hotmail.com with ways that you share kindness on Thursday.
Mammen's death marked the city’s 43rd homicide of 2022.
