Prayer vigil held in Malta

Nearly 60 people showed up to Malta’s Front Street Park on Wednesday evening following an incident earlier that day which left Phillips County Sheriff Deputy Alan Guderjahn in the hospital and in which 20-year-old Ambrose E. Mecklenburg lost his life.

Candles were lit for the victims and a prayer circle was formed before Malta resident Kelly McCann started the ceremony.

“Thank you for coming out in the rain tonight to honor our injured and our lost,” McCann said. “Today we meet to send out prayers and positive thoughts to Deputy Guderjahn who now lays injured in a hospital in Grea...