Flowers now mark the spot where 43-year-old Michelle McFarren died in Glens Falls last week.

“We’re trying to get justice for Michelle McFarren. Just to get out in the community that she may not have been a homeless person, she may not have been seeking shelter– she was in distress,” said friend Kim Ouderkerk. “She may have needed help.”

Friends remember her as loving and caring.

“She was an outgoing person. She’d do anything for anybody in the community. She loved everybody. There’s times where I’ve gone to the bars with her. I’ve hung out with her at family gatherings,” said friend Trevor Stimpson. “When my dad died eight years ago, Michelle was there with me. She was one of the best people to have around. She was trying to keep me going, keep my spirit up. She was just the life of the party.”

A march in her memory is planned for Friday at 4pm in front of Glens Falls City Hall.

“The community deserves to know what happened to Michelle,” said Stimpson.

In the early morning hours last Thursday, March 6, police found a fire in a clothing donation bin in a parking lot off of Hudson Avenue in Glens Falls, and discovered McFarren’s body.

Police say there were two reported 9-1-1 calls at about 9:30pm the night before, on March 5, in the area of Hudson Avenue as well as Broad Street in Glens Falls. They said last week that it’s unconfirmed if those calls were related or linked to the death investigation.

In this emergency dispatch clip from the night before her death obtained by Newschannel 13, McFarren’s name, a reported threat, and a gas station on Broad Street are mentioned.

“Michelle McFarren. She stated there’s a group of men … to cause bodily harm to her. She keeps reiterating that she’s stuck inside of the blue box at the Tenneybrook….”

Ouderkerk thinks McFarren’s calls for help were dismissed in life, and she doesn’t want Michelle’s death to be brushed aside.

“After this happened, they’re saying that the community does not have to be worried, that there’s no fear that anybody else is going to be harmed,” she said. “If they don’t even have a final determination on what happened, how do they know that the community is not at risk? That is my big concern. This is a human being. It doesn’t matter if she was homeless, it doesn’t matter if she was mental health. It doesn’t matter any of that. She was a human. And she deserves justice. That’s what we’re here for, we’re trying to get Michelle some justice.”