Pubdate: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 Source: Bradenton Herald (FL) Copyright: 2003 Bradenton Herald Contact: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradentonherald/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/58 Author: Abby Weingarten, Herald Staff Writer MEMORIES FLOOD SITE OF DEATH A Family Holds A Vigil For Kerry Ducre, 25, Where He Was Shot And Killed In An Albertsons Parking Lot EAST MANATEE - Against the rustling of brown paper bags and metal shopping carts making their way through another Thursday night at the grocery store, they sang. More than 100 mourners, candles flickering and fingers interlocked, peered at a white-lined parking space with traces of blood still embedded in the asphalt. "He's got the whole world in his hands," they harmonized, gripping tightly to a belief that 25-year-old Kerry Ducre had gone to a better place that afternoon he was shot and killed in the Albertsons lot. Two other men were wounded in the Oct. 3 shootout that authorities say was drug-related. For Teria Robinson, halted visions of a future with her boyfriend of 31/2 years will never cease to haunt her. Ducre proposed to her, she said, the night before he was killed. He had flown into Bradenton from West Virginia for her birthday - he had been living up north, endeavoring to piece his life back together, she said. "He was getting into a lot of trouble down here, and he wanted to get away from it," Robinson said. "If it took his death to give other people a chance who are on the wrong path, maybe some good can come of all this." Ducre's family organized the vigil to memorialize Ducre who, at 4:30 p.m. that Friday, was shot to death in the parking lot at 8415 Lockwood Ridge Road during a drug exchange between men in two cars, according to court records. Carlos Alonso, 20, and Raymond Malara III, 20, have since been arrested on charges of murder in connection with the triple shooting that killed Ducre and injured 20-year-old Jabbarey Bryant and 19-year-old Clayton Dowling, all of Bradenton. Dowling told authorities that he, Bryant and Ducre arranged to meet Malara so that Ducre could buy drugs, according to documents filed at the Manatee County Courthouse. Alonso is in the Manatee County jail without bail, and Malara is being held in New York at Riker's Island pending extradition. Photographs of Ducre lay in the parking space, with bouquets of roses and cards. Robinson rested her head on the shoulder of Ducre's mother, Linda. "All of these tragedies don't happen for no reason," said Frank Jenkins, assistant pastor at Faith Temple Church of God and Christ. "I just want to encourage our young people, try something new. Tell yourself tonight, 'I am somebody.' " Christina Sherman, still wearing her nursing scrubs from work, said she grew up with Ducre on 18th Street East. He owned every color of Converse All-Stars and always had a friendly word to share, she said. "I'll always remember him with a smile on his face and some Chuck Taylors on his feet," she said. "He was a real sweet boy." Sherman's two sons and one daughter gathered around her, oblivious to the reason so many were congregating Thursday night. She told them it was a vigil, she said, but couldn't tell them why. She didn't know where to begin. "The kind of lifestyle some people live, I guess there are a lot of things to be expected," Sherman said. "But just about everybody I know has been getting killed. Every time it happens, you wonder, who is it going to be next?" Visitation for Ducre will be at 5 p.m. today at House of God Church, 1107 Sixth St. W., Bradenton. A memorial service will be noon Saturday at Redeemed Christian Center at the Just For Girls Club, 1011 21st St. E., Bradenton. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin