Funeral held for Connecticut girl in mother-daughter ‘murder-suicide’

A 7-year-old Connecticut girl who was apparently killed by her mother in a murder-suicide was remembered by heartbroken father as a “shining star” with “the biggest imagination” at her tearful funeral Friday.

Roughly 100 people gathered to mourn little Layla Malon, who was drowned at her ritzy Westport home before her mother Tracy Do, 46, fatally stabbed herself, according to officials. The child’s remains were placed in a pink, floral-patterned urn on a table next to a framed photo of her — as her shattered father, Eric Malon, and 13-year-old sister Alexis Malon, sat nearby clutching pink roses and shaking with grief.