Kara Welsh gymnastics: Plainfield remembers UW-Whitewater college gymnast killed in apartment shooting [Video]

PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) — There was massive show of support Monday morning in Plainfield to remember murdered college student Kara Welsh.

Neighbors on the street where she grew up tied white ribbons around trees in the southwest suburb.

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Kara Welsh was attending the University of Wisconsin Whitewater.

The stand-out college gymnast spent her childhood in the southwest suburbs. Now, multiple communities are mourning her sudden death.

The 21-year-old college gymnast was shot and killed Friday night in her off-campus apartment, near the University of Wisconsin Whitewater.

A 23-year-old man is in custody and facing several charges after police said Welsh got into an altercation with the suspect in her apartment, before she was shot.

One of Welsh’s former coaches in Joliet said her loved ones are struggling to understand this tragedy.

Her childhood friends said she was always the light of the room.

One of Welsh’s former coaches in Joliet, Nick Becker, who coached her for nine …