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Friends and relatives of Luis Alberto Vital, 17, mourn over his coffin during a funeral service in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday Oct. 24. Vital is one of the 14 victims of the attack on two private homes where about four dozen partygoers had gathered for a teen's birthday on Friday night.

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People clean a blood stained patio at a home in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 23. At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on this house late Friday during a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.