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'I do not have an answer'

July 28, 2015 at 12:48AM
A family member consoles Ali Breaux, second from left, as Dondie LeBanc Breaux, center, and Kevin Breaux, right, stand by while they watch the casket of Mayci Breaux being placed into a hearse following her funeral service at the Church of the Assumption in Franklin, La. (Douglas Collier/The Shreveport Times via AP)
Relatives of Mayci Breaux, who was gunned down in a Louisiana movie theater last week, were among about 500 people at her funeral on Monday. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Family and friends gathered Monday to remember two women killed during a shooting at a movie theater last week in Louisiana.

Mayci Marie Breaux and Jillian Johnson died Thursday when gunman John Russell Houser opened fire in a Lafayette movie theater. Houser died later after turning the gun on himself.

About 500 people attended the service for Breaux at the Church of the Assumption in Franklin. The Rev. Lloyd Benoit said Breaux was "kind, always polite and always with that characteristic smile." He told the standing-room-only crowd that many were asking why this tragedy happened but it was a question " … for which I do not have an answer."

Johnson's service was held in Lafayette.

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Mason Matthews, 10, leaves a card at a makeshift memorial for shooting victim Jillian Johnson at Red Arrow Workshop in River Ranch in Lafayette, La., Friday, July 24, 2015. According to The Daily Advertiser, store co-owner Johnson was among the victims that died following the Thursday night shooting at the Grand 16 theater. (Paul Kieu/The Daily Advertiser via AP)
A memorial for shooting victim Jillian Johnson was made at the gift shop she co-owned in Lafayette, La. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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