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Pedestrians look on near the scene of a shooting in Toronto early on July 17, 2012, that left at least 19 people injured and two dead. The shooting took place after an altercation at an outdoor barbecue.

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Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair speaks to media near the scene early Tuesday.

Alastair Jamieson of NBCNews.com reports — Two people have died and at least 19 others were wounded in a shooting at a block party in the eastern Toronto suburb of Scarborough Monday night, according to Canadian media reports.

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair told CBC that a teenage girl and a man aged about 20 had been killed in the violence shortly before 11 p.m. ET Monday.

"I've been a cop for 35 years, this is the worst incidence of gun violence in my memory anywhere in North America," Blair said. Read the full story.

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A man watches on at a crime scene following a shooting in Scarborough, a suburb in east Toronto, on July 17, 2012.

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A woman sits on the curb wearing handcuffs following a shooting in Scarborough on July 17, 2012.

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The shooting raised fresh fears of a rise in gun crime in Canada's largest city.

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Dolores Walker and her daughter Delwanna Briggs say goodbye to their son and brother Joseph Briggs during a funeral service at New Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church on Wednesday in Chicago, Illinois. Briggs, who turned 16 in April, was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting while he was sitting on his front porch with his sister on June 9. Briggs was one of nine people killed and 46 wounded by gunfire in Chicago during that June weekend.

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Mourners watch as the remains of Joseph Briggs is lowered into a grave at Oak Woods Cemetery on Wednesday in Chicago, Illinois.

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Anton Brown says goodbye to his nephew Joseph Briggs before his burial at Oak Woods Cemetery.

Joseph Briggs was one of eight people killed in a weekend of shootings in Chicago that left more than 40 people wounded.

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A Thai bridegroom was shot dead at his wedding in front of his bride and 100 stunned guests, The Bangkok Post reports:

Yutthana Juyure, 27, the bridegroom and his bride Nurasatilah Masae were walking around talking to guests and posing for photographs.

The bridegroom, at one point, walked away from his bride to meet some guests eating under a tent nearby. While walking back, he was followed closely by a man who shot him six times in the body with a 9mm gun at close range, killing him on the spot.

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Nurasatilah Masae standing in front of her bridegroom who was shot dead during their wedding in the Muslim majority province of Pattani, southern Thailand, on June 10, 2012. The groom was shot dead in the presence of his bride and more than 100 guests, and the gunman then fled, police said.

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Mourners embrace after a prayer vigil for victims of the Oikos University shootings at the Allen Temple Baptist Church on April 3, 2012 in Oakland, California.

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Members of the clergy take turns leading prayer during a vigil for victims of the shootings at the Allen Temple Baptist Church on April 3, 2012.

Msnbc.com staff and news services report — About 1,000 people, including relatives and friends of the seven people shot dead at a small Christian college in Oakland, Calif, gathered for a memorial service on Tuesday evening at the Allen Temple Baptist Church, where the congregation consists mainly of African-American and Korean-American worshippers. 

• Report: Oikos University shootings suspect 'can't deal with women'

Many of the assembled wept quietly with hands clasped and heads bowed. Flowers were laid at the podium, where clergy from different faiths offered prayers. Some mourners swayed and waved their hands in the air and wiped tears from their eyes while hymns were sung.

• Oakland shooting: Private Christian school catered to Koreans

One of the speakers, Mayor Jean Quan, said the gun violence that shook Oakland this week could occur anywhere in America.

"This is America, where you can find a gun easier than mental health services," she said. Read more.

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Mourners gather for a prayer vigil at Allen Temple Baptist Church on April 3, 2012.

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Demonstrators hold signs aloft as they march during an NAACP march and rally to the Sanford Police Department for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., March 31. Sanford is the town where Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot dead on Feb. 26 after George Zimmerman, 28, a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain, believed the young man walking through the gated community in a hooded sweatshirt looked suspicious.

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Civil rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton center, civil rights activist the Reverend Jesse Jackson, right, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Ben Jealous, left, brief the media before joining residents and rally attendees in a march through the streets of the Goldsboro neighborhood of Sanford, Fla., March 31. Reports state that the gathering is a protest against the Sanford Police Department's failure to arrest the man accused of killing 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Police say Martin was unarmed when he was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

With gospel music playing in the background, protesters were marching from a technical high school campus on 13th Street through a predominantly black neighborhood to the Sanford Police Station several blocks away. The throng stretched for blocks, weaving past homes, churches and small businesses, many of them boarded up.

The rally was organized by the NAACP. Its chapters from South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama arranged buses to bring participants to the rally, while others traveled by car.

"Because of the age of the young man and because of the circumstances of his death, every community can identify with that," said Bernard Simelton, president of the Alabama state conference of the NAACP. "We've had things like that happen in Alabama where somebody gets killed and the police just sweep it under the rug. It just touches everyone."

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Trayvon Martin supporters march through the historically African American community of Goldsboro on their way to an NAACP rally in front of the Sanford Police Department on March 31, in Sanford, Fla.

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Demonstrators march during an NAACP march and rally for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., March 31.

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A masked special unit policeman looks out of one of the ground floor windows of the apartment where gunman Mohamed Merah had been holed up, in Toulouse, France on March 23, 2012. Merah died in a hail of bullets on Thursday as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gunbattle with elite police commandos.

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France's incumbent President and UMP candidate for the 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Strasbourg on March 22, 2012.

As police investigators continue to search the apartment in Toulouse where a 30-hour siege ended in a cacophony of gunfire on Thursday, attention is turning to the effect events of the past two weeks will have on French politics.

France's presidential election race has resumed irrevocably altered by the killing of Mohamed Merah, an al Qaeda-inspired gunman whose murders have shifted the political debate in favor of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. 

• Graphic video may help answer whether Mohamed Merah worked alone

The young self-styled Islamist's crimes spread fear, triggered an emotive debate about immigration and integration, and gave Sarkozy a small bounce in the polls as he sought to close the gap behind Socialist rival Francois Hollande.

With only one month left to go before the first round of the election, Merah's influence is likely to endure.

• Sarkozy announces crackdown on Internet hate sites

"Of course what has happened in the past week has changed the course of events," a senior Sarkozy campaign adviser said on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"There wasn't much talk about security and terrorism before. But this is going to raise questions about our system of integration, our approach to fundamentalism and our tolerance of certain practices here. You're going to hear a lot about that in the weeks to come," he said. Continue reading.

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A relative of seven-year-old Miriam Monsonego (bottom center) mourns during the joint funeral service in Jerusalem on March 21, 2012 for her daughter and the other three victims of Monday's shooting in Toulouse, France.

A joint funeral service is being held in Israel for the victims of Monday's shooting at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse.

The bodies of 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arieh, 5, and Gabriel, 4, and seven-year-old Myriam Monsonego arrived at Ben Gurion international airport ahead of a burial service in Jerusalem. 

The four were gunned down on Monday in the deadliest school shooting France has ever known and the bloodiest attack on Jewish targets in decades.

A suspect wanted in connection with the attack wounded three police officers in a shootout at a house in Toulouse early Wednesday. Click here for further updates and get the very latest at BreakingNews.com.

-- The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report

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An Israeli Zaka volunteer stands next to the bodies of victims of the shooting in a morgue before their funeral in Jerusalem on March 21, 2012.

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Members of ZAKA open the coffins of the Toulouse shooting victims as they prepare the bodies for burial at a morgue in Jerusalem on March. 21, 2012.

 Previously on PhotoBlog:

• Silence across France honors victims of attack on Jewish school
• Thousands march in Paris to remember school shooting victims
• Four killed in shooting outside Toulouse school

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Raphael Cuevas, left, and Jashua Castro stop at a memorial to Trayvon Martin outside The Retreat at Twin Lakes community where Trayvon was shot by George Michael Zimmerman while on Neighborhood Watch patrol in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman's claim of shooting the teen in self-defense has been questioned by community leaders.

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An undated handout photo of Trayvon Martin.

Msnbc.com staff and NBC News reports:

A grand jury will investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old shot to death in a gated community in Florida on Feb. 26, state attorney Norm Wolfinger announced Tuesday.

Martin was shot by George Zimmerman, a resident who was patrolling the gated community in his car. Martin was returning from a convenience store where he had just purchased candy and iced tea.

Law enforcement officers did not arrest Zimmermen after the incident, citing Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law that allows potential crime victims who are “in fear of great bodily injury” to use deadly force in public areas. Critics of the 2005 law call it the “Shoot first (ask questions later) law.

Related coverage:

• Trayvon Martin case to go to grand jury
• Mom: Trayvon Martin was killed because of ‘the color of his skin
• Feds to probe death of Florida teen

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People march through the streets of Paris on March 19 after the today's shooting of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish School in the southwestern city of Toulouse. Three children and a teacher were killed and a teenage boy was seriously wounded when a gunman opened fire this morning.

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People march through the streets of Paris on March 19 after the Ozar Hatorah Hebrew school shooting, where four people lost their lives.

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Earlier today: Policemen work the scene near the Ozar Hatorah Hebrew school where four people were killed by a gunman.

Thousands of Parisians held a silent march through the streets of Paris to honor the three children and a rabbi who were shot dead by a gunman at Ozar Hatorah Hebrew school in Toulouse, France today.

President Nicolas Sarkozy said the bullets from one of the two guns used match those in earlier attacks that killed three French soldiers.

Some 120 investigators were working on a manhunt for the killer and had already identified the license plate of the motorbike used in today's attack, police sources said.

French media said that security was being tightened at all Jewish schools in the country.

--Msnbc.com sources contributed to this blog post.

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• Four shot dead at Jewish school in France; gun used in earlier attacks

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A student, second from left, is flanked by an unidentified woman and police officers as they leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse, southwestern France, on March 19, 2012.

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Police officers gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse on March 19, 2012. A father and his two sons were among four people who died when a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday.

Msnbc.com staff, NBC News and news services report — A man opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, killing at least four people, including three children, officials said.

A rabbi at the school, identified as Rahamim Sabag, told Israel's channel two television that the dead were a 30-year old rabbi who taught at the school, the rabbi's five-year-old son and two eight-year old children, one of them the daughter of the school's principal, Reuters reported.

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School children and their parents leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse on March 19, 2012.

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An elderly Afghan man sits next to a covered body, who was allegedly killed by a U.S. service member, in a minibus in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 11. Villagers showed an Associated Press photographer 15 bodies, including women and children, and alleged they were killed by the American.

A U.S. service member killed at least 15 members of two Afghan families as well as a 16th person before turning himself in, witnesses and officials said Sunday. Nine of the dead were children, and three were women, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in a statement.

The soldier, who has yet to be identified, reportedly left his base in the early hours Sunday and went to two villages just a few hundred yards away. He then opened fire on Afghan civilians sleeping in ther homes, Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid told Reuters. The service member entered three homes in the villages in Kandahar province, he said.

-- Reported by msnbc.com staff and news services

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