Mourners remember Marietta's Lauren Burk at memorial service

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Mourners remember Marietta's Lauren Burk at memorial service

Photos from memorial service for Auburn University student Lauren Burk of Marietta at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.

Mourners enter a memorial service for Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta in March 2008.

Mourners enter Lauren Burk's memorial service at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Burk's funeral was held at Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta.

A woman arrives for Burk's memorial service. The service was closed to the media, but friends outside the church remembered Burk with great fondness.

One of Lauren Burk's classmates at Walton High and Auburn said, "If you didn't have a smile on your face, she put one there."

A man enters Burk's memorial service. Outside the church, there was relief at the news someone had been charged in Burk's death, but many said the randomness of the crime was worrisome.

Lauren Burk, 18, of Marietta was found fatally wounded March 4, 2008 along a highway near Auburn University.

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Mourners enter a memorial service for Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta in March 2008.

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