Fond remembrances shared at tonight's vigil for Cody Pitts

HUBBARD

Along Orchard Avenue in the chilly dampness Thursday evening, a somber crowd was gathering.

It included a lot of younger people — in their 20s, like he was.

They were parking along Main Street and in lots where businesses had donated spaces for the occasion, and were hurrying over to the intersection of Main and Orchard.

They filed a short way along Orchard, normally a quiet side street, where they stood, waiting, until 8 p.m., when they would begin to remember him — their friend, Cody Pitts.

What happened to Pitts, 26, on Orchard Avenue in that spot early Saturday morning, is still a mystery to the tight-knit community of Hubbard.

He was found dead on the ground from a gunshot wound around 3 a.m. by someone driving by.

If police have made any breakthrough yet in their investigation into the homicide, they aren’t ready to release the information.

“Nothing we can speak of,” said police Chief Jim Taafe.

Taafe, who knew Pitts, said he was well-liked.

“You will go through this entire community and not find anybody to say a bad word about that boy,” he said.

Read more about the vigil in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.