PLAINVILLE, CT (WFSB) -
Friends and family gathered inside a church Monday morning to mark the five-year anniversary of the Cheshire home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead.
People gathered at Our Lady of Mercy in Plainville to honor the lives of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley and Michaela.
The three women were killed when two men, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, broke into their home, assaulted and beat the women and then set the home on fire.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky have both been convicted of the crime and sentenced to death.
The lone survivor, Dr. William Petit, has worked effortlessly since the tragedy to preserve the memory of his wife and daughters by starting the Petit Family Foundation.
The foundation has raised thousands of dollars for women in science, those suffering from chronic illness and to help those affected by violence.
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