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August 4, 1999
Web posted at: 10:02 a.m. EDT (1402 GMT)

ATLANTA (CNN) -- People are gathering for a citywide service in Atlanta today to mourn 20 victims of multiple slayings in July.

Those killed -- including children and police officers -- died over about a two-week period.

Three gunmen in the slayings also died, two at their own hand, the other shot dead by police.

• The worst single mass murder in Atlanta's history took place last Thursday, when Mark Barton, who had bludgeoned his wife and two children to death on Tuesday and Wednesday at their suburban home, fatally shot nine people and wounded 13 others at two office buildings in the city. Barton shot himself later that night in Acworth, northwest of Atlanta, as police pursued him in his van.

• Six days earlier, on July 23, were gunned down as they tried to storm the home of a man who had wounded another police officer. The gunman was killed as he tried to escape.

• Eleven days before that, six members of a southwest Atlanta family were slain by the live-in boyfriend of one of the victims before he killed himself.

Church is near Buckhead office buildings

An interfaith memorial service will be held at the Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, less than a mile from where the office building shootings took place last week in the Buckhead section of Atlanta.

During the "Service of Hope and Remembrance for the City of Atlanta," candles will be lit, the names of the 20 victims will be read, and prayers will be said for the wounded and the bereaved.

Correspondent Tony Clark contributed to this report.

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