Candlelight vigil to be held for Albany murder victim

A candlelight vigil will be held Tuesday night for an Albany woman who was shot in the head on Christmas Day and died a few days later.

Sky Lemmons-Dixon was found with a gunshot wound at home on State Street.

Michael Varlak has been charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in Lemmons-Dixon’s death.

The vigil will take place from 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the ball field of Beverwyck Park in Albany. That’s two blocks from where she lived. 

Lemmons-Dixon was a shot a few months after her ex-boyfriend, Houston Ketter, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for torturing and assaulting Lemmons-Dixon and another woman.

Ketter had physically abused Lemmons-Dixon on more than one occasion. He heated up a pot, placed the hot pot on various parts of her body and then used it to break her arm, court documents showed.

Lemmons-Dixon was scheduled to testify in her abusive ex-boyfriend’s trial, but ended up not doing so.