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18-year-old, youngest killed at Pulse nightclub, mourned

PHILADELPHIA — Some mourners are remembering the youngest of the 49 victims of the Florida nightclub massacre by wearing red, her favorite color.

Funeral services were held Friday in Philadelphia for 18-year-old Akyra Murray. A single red rose was pinned inside the roof of her white casket. Members of the high school basketball team Murray played on came in their jerseys.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that a friend who was with Murray the night of the June 12 shooting arrived on crutches at the Monument Baptist Church. Patience Carter was shot in the leg.

Murray graduated a week before her family's vacation in Orlando, and was to attend college this fall.

Her mother has said her terrified daughter called her from a bathroom stall at the Pulse nightclub begging for help.