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Mom, son slain in N. Bay Shore are mourned

The coffin of 2-year-old Jaiden Planter is taken

Photo credit: Ed Betz | The coffin of 2-year-old Jaiden Planter is taken out of Prayer Tabernacle Church of God and Christ after a funeral service in Amityville. (Jan. 7, 2012)

Forgiveness was the main message Saturday to the more than 300 family, friends and co-workers who gathered to mourn the killings of a 21-year-old mother and her son, who would have turned 2 this past Friday.

"They are gone, so we cry," Pastor Walter C. Willie Jr. said during the funeral for Shakeela L. Planter and her son, Jaiden, at Prayer Tabernacle Church of God In Christ in Amityville....

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