WILKINSBURG, Pa. -- Community members gathered on Ella Street in Wilkinsburg Wednesday evening to remember a young woman police said was killed last week for her unborn baby.

Police found 18-year-old Kia Johnson's bound body inside Andrea Curry-Demus’ apartment on Friday.

"When I thought about the fear that she may have felt, what she felt having the baby, just not being able to do anything, it just tore at my heart," said Vanessa McCarthey-Johnson who attended the event.

Participants signed a card that they hope to send to Johnson's family.

Johnson's baby was released from the hospital Tuesday. A spokeswoman for West Penn Hospital said the boy has been named Terrell Kian Johnson after his mother. She did not indicate who has custody of the child.

Curry-Demus, 38, has been charged with homicide, kidnapping and related offenses in an alleged plot to steal the baby boy. She is expected in court Wednesday for a competency hearing.

Authorities found Johnson’s body after authorities said Curry-Demus showed up with the baby at a hospital, initially claiming it as her own. According to police, Curry-Demus told them she befriended a pregnant woman named “Tina” and arranged to buy the baby for $1,000 after she miscarried in June.

Johnson may have been alive and was possibly drugged when the baby was ripped from her womb, authorities said. Authorities are awaiting toxicology tests, which are expected to take several weeks, to determine if Johnson had been drugged.