While police are still searching for the person responsible for the double homicide in Niles on Friday, the community came together to share their feelings of sadness and shock.

39-year-old Carolyn Tarwacki and her husband, 40 year-old John Tarwacki were found dead in their Niles home Friday.

The two were highly involved in music education.

Many students, teachers, and friends were at a candlelight vigil supporting the families.

The couple worked together at a music store in Stevensville. They supplied instruments, gear, and they fixed instruments for local bands. Adults and kids who were involved with them say they did much more than just show up and do their job.

Steve Bizoe, a director of bands in the Niles schools says, “The kids knew them because they would come into class. If a kid needed a clarinet to be repaired, a lot of times Carolyn would get it and say just come pick it up at the house. Carolyn's been like an institution to our program. She's just been exceptional. She's going to be missed.”

Leah Virgil, a former Niles High School band member says, “It really saddens me a lot and I don't want to go through any of this when it comes to my family.

Leah's mom also has a connection with Carolyn, her sister, and her mom, Sharon McKnight.

Ann Virgil says, “I went through Girl Scouts with them. I was older. I helped out with their troop. I worked with Sharon on the ambulance here in Niles when it was a volunteer ambulance.”

Leah Virgil says, “It's just so hard to see the family go through what they have to go through.”

In a small community like Niles, all of these people feel like they've lost two close friends who were a part of their lives at some point.

Sharon Eberman says, “I knew her father, Jack. That's how I got to know the family. He taught me how to do harness racing.”

Bizoe says, “We're going to try to remember Carolyn in a way she'd want to.”

The person responsible for this double homicide is still on the loose. Police say they've ruled out three persons of interest.

Police say it looks like this crime was planned. They're still looking for a white male between 20 and 30 with brown hair and a medium build. They say he would've been in the area of Yankee Street and Carberry Road, where they couple lived.

Autopsies of the victims have been finished, both victims died of violent means involving weapons by a single assailant.

Visitation and funeral plans have been arraigned for the Tarwacki's. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at Hope Community Church, located in the 2300-hundred block of Lake Street in Niles. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday at the Hope Community Church as well. The Halbritter Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.