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Remembrance Held For 7 People Killed Execution-Style In West Philadelphia 20 Years Ago

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A solemn remembrance of a massacre was held in West Philadelphia Monday night, 20 years after the shooting. Family and friends gathered on Lex Street in the Mill Creek neighborhood to release balloons.

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That's where 10 people were shot execution-style on Dec. 28, 2000. Seven of them died.

It's considered the largest mass killing in modern Philadelphia history.

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