WESTMINSTER — The clock tower at the Civic Center here became an epicenter of grieving, reflection and remembrance Wednesday night in the face of tragedy.

A vigil was held there in honor of Amanda Jensen, 37, a Garden Grove resident, mother of three, and the city clerk of Westminster.

Westminster City Clerk Amanda Jensen’s father Bill Coates passes the light on his candles to his wife Terri during a candlelight vigil at Civic Center in Westminster on Wednesday, August 2, 2017. Jensen died early July in an apparent murder-suicide by the 17-year Los Alamitos officer Rick Moore. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Westminster City Clerk Amanda Jensen’s family and people listens to the mayor Tri Ta during a candlelight vigil in her memory at Civic Center in Westminster on Wednesday, August 2, 2017. Jensen died early July in an apparent murder-suicide by the 17-year Los Alamitos officer Rick Moore. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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City of Westminster Mayor Tri Ta speaks during a candle vigil for memory of City Clerk Amanda Jensen at Civic Center in Westminster on Wednesday, August 2, 2017. Jensen died early July in an apparent murder-suicide by the 17-year Los Alamitos officer Rick Moore. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Family of Westminster City Clerk Amanda Jensen show their emotion during the candlelight vigil held in her memory at Civic Center in Westminster on Wednesday, August 2, 2017. Jensen died early July in an apparent murder-suicide by the 17-year Los Alamitos officer Rick Moore. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Over two hundred people attended the candlelight vigil for memory of City Clerk Amanda Jensen at Civic Center in Westminster on Wednesday, August 2, 2017. Jensen died early July in an apparent murder-suicide by the 17-year Los Alamitos officer Rick Moore. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Orange County Register/SCNG)



Westminster City Clerk Amanda Jensen, 37, of Garden Grove. (Photo courtesy of City of Westminster)

Jensen died July 16 in a Seal Beach apartment after being shot three times by her ex-boyfriend, Los Alamitos police Capt. Rick Moore, who then shot himself, Seal Beach police have said. Jensen’s and Moore’s bodies lay dead for hours inside the apartment on Seventh Street while Seal Beach SWAT, unsure if anyone was alive inside, treated it as a barricade situation.

The situation roiled all three communities.

On Wednesday, Aug. 2, Westminster held a candlelight vigil for their employees, with mourners gathering outside the Civic Center. City Manager Eddie Manfro and an official of a center for domestic-violence survivors opened the ceremony.

Then, the microphone opened for anyone who wanted to share stories of Jensen, who had worked for the city for 11 years and as the city clerk since 2015.