MAD RIVER TWP., Clark County — Tears shimmered in the candlelight on the cheeks of those gathered at a vigil at Enon Beach Monday night for a Clark County sheriff’s deputy and campground resident killed in a shootout Saturday.

As the crowd of approximately two dozen sang “Amazing Grace,” one campground resident put his arm around his neighbor.

It’s a close-knit community, where everyone knows each other by face, if not by name.

“We watch out for each other out here,” said Larry Eytchison.

They were grieving for Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper.

“She gave her life for us and for everyone in here,” said an emotional David Harrison, who called police Saturday after someone shot into his trailer where he slept. He praised Hopper’s bravery and professionalism.

And they prayed for the family of Michael Ferryman, a campground resident who is suspected to have killed Hopper and then was found dead after a shootout with police.

But they also were struggling to come to terms with a shattered sense of security after the quiet campground erupted in gunfire Saturday afternoon.

“I’m just hurting because this happened to me where I live,” one woman said.

Resident Teresa Alcorn said most of the trailers at the park are only used in the summer. She said the roughly 30 to 40 people who live there year-round all know each other.

Alcorn has lived there four years with her two sons. She said the campground residents are mostly there because it’s “the only place they can afford because the rent is so high (elsewhere).”

After the vigil, some people walked around contemplatively with their candles. Others placed them in front of the police tape around Ferryman’s camper.

Pastor Karen Rogers of Enon Methodist Church said the candles carry a message for the families of those killed, for the residents of the campground and for the community at large.

“God is with us in a time of extreme darkness,” she said.