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Remembering victims of deadly La Loche shooting

The heart-wrenching shooting in La Loche, Sask., shocked people all over the world after four people were killed and seven others were injured.

Marie Janvier, Adam Wood, Dayne and Drayden Fontaine were killed in Saskatchewan shooting

The walls, hallways and lockers of the Clearwater River Dene School were covered in notes with messages of support for La Loche. (Matthew Kruchak/CBC)
La Loche Community School. (Matt Kruchak/CBC)
Teacher Adam Wood, 35,and teaching assistantMarie Janvier, 21, were shot and killed at La Loche Community School on January 22. Seven other people were injured.

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The scene outside of the La Loche home where a fatal shooting took place. (Matt Kruchak/CBC)
Brothers, Dayne and Drayden Fontaine, aged 17 and 13 respectively, were killed at this home in La Loche the same day.

The accused, 17, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.He also faces one count of unauthorized possession of a firearm.His name can't be published because he is under 18 and covered by provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

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Memorial in front of La Loche Community School in La Loche, Sask. where one of the shootings took place. (Matt Kruchak/CBC)
La Loche residents commemorate Wood, Janvier, and Dayne and Drayden Fontaine with a memorial in front of La Loche Community School.

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Worshippers filed into a church in La Loche on Jan. 24.
The community came together following the tragic shooting.

Residents gathered on Jan.24, for a standing-room only service at Our Lady of Visitation Catholic Church.Archbishop Murray Chatlainsaid he's met with the victims' families,as well as the family of the 17-year-old boy who is charged.

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Residents of Buffalo Narrows, Sask., held a roadside vigil Tuesday to pay their respects to La Loche shooting victim Marie Janvier. (Matt Kruchak/CBC)
It's not only the residents of La Loche that are coming together to pay their respects to the four people killed, but communitiesacross Northern Saskatchewan are paying their respects.

A procession was held from Saskatoon to La Loche on Jan.26 for Marie Janvier. More than five communities along the way held candlelight vigils.

Roadside vigils held for La Loche shooting victim Marie Janvier
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall led a delegation of provincial and national leaders and officials who met with people in La Loche, following shootings Friday. (Matt Kruchak/CBC)

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall visited LaLocheand met with several community leaders on Jan. 24, 2016.

"If they are having trouble... the resources are here to provide that counselling," he said.

Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale andGeorgina Jolibois, MP for DesnetheMissinippiChurchill river and former mayor of La Loche, also took part in the meetings.

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(Left to right) Braylyn Montgrand, Dailen Montgrand, a La Loche elder, and Bobby Montgrand in La Loche, Sask. (Matthew Kruchak/CBC)
Residents, like Bobby Montgrand, want to see all levels of government address the social issues that plague the community from addiction to poverty and unemployment to the high number of suicides and create more services within the community.

"There's a lack of everything," he said."We don't have nothing. We're 50 years behind."

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