"We're trying to hold up right now," said 18-year-old Blayne, the victim's son.

Blayne is the oldest. As a father himself, he now has three younger sisters to look after. A week and a half ago, they lost both parents in a murder-suicide.

Police said Della Dikito, 38, was shot by her husband Domingo who then shot himself.

Relatives said the youngest daughter, just eight, actually saw the shooting. The kids are choosing to stay at the house where their parents died, cared for by their grandmother.

"As long as my sisters, we're together, we're strong," said Blayne. "Just like how my father and my mother raised us."

And they also have a lot of support. Dozens of cousins, aunts and friends unpacked T-shirts printed with Della's image and wore them as they marched around the capitol walking in silence because Della was silenced by a senseless act.

"He could have at least talked to her," Della's younger sister Zenna said. "He wasn't even thinking of the kids, you know?"

These marches are always sad as other domestic violence victims are remembered as well.

For the Dikito children, the healing comes one step at a time .

"I told her I loved her before I left, told my dad the same thing too," said Blayne. "I didn't really expect this to happen but we have to get through this.

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