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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – While the search continues for a missing 18-year-old and the man accused of abducting her in Charlottesville, back in Fairfax County, friends and neighbors are using vigils and yellow ribbons to show support for the Graham family and to express their wishes that Hannah Graham return home soon.
Born in England, Graham has lived in Virginia since she was five. Her family lives in Fairfax County and Graham graduated from West Potomac High School before attending the University of Virginia, where she disappeared in the early morning hours of Sept. 13.
“I’m praying that she comes home safely,” says Rebecca Johnson while picking up a yellow ribbon from a community message board to display on her home’s front door.
Johnson doesn’t live in Stratford Landing where Graham’s parents reside but was in the area taking her children to the neighborhood elementary school Wednesday morning.
“Any kind of support I can offer, I just want to be part of it,” Johnson says.
Talking through tears while picking up a ribbon to display on her front yard tree, Catherine Schurr says her son and Graham are very close friends.
“He’s devastated,” she says of her son, who attends the University of Notre Dame.
Wearing a faded West Potomac High Wolverines sweatshirt, Schurr says her son, like Graham, is a sophomore. “He’s been going to the grotto and praying.”
Asked how she’s helping her son cope, Schurr wonders how anyone can cope.
“There’s nothing to say. There are no words
