The grief-stricken husband of a young mother who died after being mowed down outside a Melbourne shopping centre has joined thousands of mourners at a candlelight vigil in her memory.
Candles and white balloons were held high as more than 2000 people gathered in the Carrum Downs shopping centre car park on Sunday night.
Andrea Lehane, 33, was fatally injured when she was allegedly hit by a mini-motorbike as she crossed the road to the car park on Wednesday.
Family members turned off the mother-of-two's life support on Friday and donated her organs after she suffered "unsurvivable" brain damage from the crash.
Her husband, James Lehane, supported by family and friends, told the crowd how caring and nurturing his wife had been, the Herald Sun reports.
"She leaves behind a strong but an inconceivably sad group of people, but above all else she leaves behind two beautiful children," he said.
"As they grow up they'll have a small but beautiful memory of their mother, and I need to step up and be double the father I was, that is something I promised them I will do."
Before the vigil mourners, many who didn't know Ms Lehane personally said they were strongly affected by her death.
"It's very, very sad," one woman told the Nine Network on Sunday.
Caleb Jakobsson, 18, faced court over the hit-run death on Saturday and was remanded in custody to appear on Tuesday.
Two others have also been charged.
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