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Pamela Martinez, grandmother of Selena, Antonio, Andrew and Mackenzie Martinez, huddle on Monday evening, May 20, 2013 as they say a prayer for Elvira Campos,10, who was shot to death Saturday night while watching TV in the living room of her North Highlands home on Channing Way. Sacramento county sheriff's investigators said Sunday. The barrage of bullets that penetrated the house from outside also wounded the girl's father and mother. -
A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. The relationship between the woman and the child was not immediately known. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. View a photo gallery. -
Bullet holes are seen in the front window, Monday, May 20, 2013, of the home, where Elvira Campos, 10, was shot and killed in North Highlands, Calif. Campos had been watching television with her parents Saturday night, when at least two gunmen walked up to the door of the home and began shooting. About a dozen shot were fired, killing Campos' and wounding her father and mother. -
A Burrowing owl sit on its perches in a public park in Cooper City, Fla. Monday, May 20, 2013 as rain drops streak across the sky. -
Italian businessman Marcello di Finizio stands by his banner with writings against the Italian Government and the Euro as he protests on St. Peter's 130-meter-high (42-feet-high) dome, at the Vatican, Monday, May 20, 2013. Di Finizio eluded Vatican security Monday and scaled the dome of St. Peter's Basilica to protest against the Italian government and European Union policies. The man, who identified himself as the owner of a beach resort, had already done a similar protest last year. -
Ben Goldfarb of New York checks his phone during commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Monday, May 20, 2013. Goldfarb, is receiving a degree from the School of Forestry with a focus on Marine Conservation. -
Alli Christian, left, helps Jessica Wilkinson as she looks for her dog Bella after Wilkinson returned to find her home near 156th street and Franklin Road destroyed by a tornado, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Norman, Okla. -
Stray dogs sleep in the premises of a railway station to escape the heat in Allahabad, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Severe heat conditions are prevailing across northern India with temperatures soaring past 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) at several places. -
Tracy Hopper comforts her daughter, Maci Hopper, 13, as they remember Hailey Dunn during a memorial service Sunday, May 19, 2013 at Colorado Middle School in Colorado City, Texas. Through prayers, songs, pictures and shared memories, Hailey's friends, family and schoolteachers gathered Sunday at Colorado Middle School Ñ where she was a student Ñ to remember a young girl whose remains were found in March. -
Beachgoers fish from a concrete platform next to the popular beach of Paleo Faliro in southern Athens on Monday, May 20, 2013. Greece is in the grip of an early heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) on Monday. -
Pittsburgh Pirates' Travis Snider, bottom, rolls into Houston Astros catcher Carlos Corporan after being tagged out trying to score from second on a single by Gaby Sanchez in the sixth inning of a baseball game on Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Pittsburgh. -
Rocio's Virgin sculpture is carried through the streets during a procession on Monday, May 20, 2013 in the village El Rocio, Huelva, southern Spain. Nearly a million people from all over Spain and Andalucia make the long journey to gather for a festival in a small hamlet of El Rocio in the marshland of the Guadalquivir River delta, where the statue of the 'Madonna of the Dew' has been worshipped since 1280. -
An Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. -
Devotees are showered with perfumed water during the end of the Urs festival, at the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine for the annual festival, marking the death anniversary of the saint. -
An exiled Tibetan man wearing glasses with a likeness of the Dalai Lama prays during a protest at a local neighborhood after they were stopped from protesting near the venue where Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was attending a meeting, in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Li said Monday he chose India for his first foreign visit because cooperation between the world's two most populous nations is crucial to world stability and economic growth. He was visiting India just weeks after the two nations resolved a tense standoff between their troops over the disputed Himalayan border between their two countries. -
North Korean nurses sing and play the accordion while children dance during an event to start a campaign to give Vitamin A supplements and deworming pills to children at a nursery school in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Child Health Day, Monday, May 20, 2013. UNICEF and North Korean government agencies are collaborating in the campaign to assist 1.7 million children across the country under the age of five. -
Catholics carry the World Youth Day cross during its arrival in Icarai beach in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Pope Francis will travel to Brazil and participate in World Youth Day events in July, 2013. -
Prince performs at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 19, 2013 in Las Vegas.
