Funeral held for 7-year-old ‘murder-suicide’ sufferer Layla Malon

A 7-year-old Connecticut woman who was apparently killed by her mom in a murder-suicide was remembered by her heartbroken father as a “shining star” with “the largest creativeness” at her tearful funeral Friday.

Roughly 100 individuals gathered to mourn little Layla Malon, who was drowned at her ritzy Westport house earlier than her mom, Tracy Do, 46, fatally stabbed herself, in accordance with officers.

The kid’s stays had been positioned in a pink, floral-patterned urn on a desk subsequent to a framed picture of her — as her shattered father, Eric Malon, and 13-year-old sister, Alexis Malon, sat close by clutching pink roses and shaking with grief.

“Regardless of the place she was, or what she was doing, she all the time had a smile on her face.”

Eric Malon, Layla’s father

“Layla was like a vivid, shining star. Regardless of the place she was, or what she was doing, she all the time had a smile on her face,” the dad stated by way of sobs through the eulogy at the Willowbrook Cemetery in Westport.

“Though she was solely 7 years outdated, somewhat shorty, her character was all the time the largest within the room. She will probably be missed as a buddy, sissy and daughter,” he stated.

“After a protracted day at work, I might come house and listen to her footsteps operating to the door to greet me or within the morning throw me a kiss to catch and maintain all day. It was my favourite a part of the day. On the weekends, we might work on initiatives collectively. I might watch you run across the sprinklers or simply sit and discuss to me,” he stated.

He added, “Our recollections I’ll all the time cherish. You all the time had the largest creativeness … Regardless of the place you might be and wherever on Earth or in heaven, you’ll all the time be Daddy’s little woman.”

Layla’s devastated sister made it solely partway by way of her speech earlier than she was overcome with disappointment.

“I like her so much and I’ll all the time seek advice from her as my child sister regardless that she was rising right into a vivid, younger, would-have-been third-grader,” Alexa Malon stated.

Family members talking on the funeral made no point out of Do through the funeral.

Police discovered the kid’s physique, together with Do’s, at their sprawling, $1.8 million Lyndale Park house — and had been at first probing their deaths as a potential double murder, in accordance with  officers.

Do had been locked in a heated court docket battle along with her ex, Malon, over the upscale house, in accordance with court docket papers.

The state health worker and police have stated the kid died by murder however have stopped wanting alleging that Do was accountable.