MAPLEWOOD (KMOX News)  -- For three minutes, it was silent in Maplewood. Hundreds joined hands and bowed their heads at a candlelight vigil in Junior High Park on Tuesday night.

Then afterwards, many walked past the scene of the crime on their way home. Joan McClelland just stood at the burned down home's steps -- and shook her head.

"Unfortunately, this is going to perpetuate the stigma that Maplewood had and is breaking away from,"McClelland says. "It's going to bring it back somewhat."

And McClelland says that's a shame.

"Maplewood has made a lot of strides in the school district, it's made a lot of strides in the downtown area with new businesses, new restaurants, new bars," she says. "People are coming in, younger people are coming in and remodeling homes and really building up the area."

But, after seeing Maplewood's resilience since the deadly shooting on Monday morning, McClelland says she can't help but feel optimistic about the future of her town.