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Va. Church To Hold Service For 3 Slain Children

McLEAN, Va. (AP) ― The McLean Bible Church will hold a memorial service for three children who were killed over the weekend by their father at a Baltimore hotel.

Mark Castillo has confessed to drowning his children one-by-one in a bathtub at a downtown hotel. Castillo is being held without bail and was ordered to be evaluated as a suicide risk.

The service for Anthony, Austin and Athena Castillo will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. at the at the church on Leesburg Pike in Vienna.

The Castillo family is asking that memorial gifts be made to the children's school, the Forcey Christian School in Silver Spring, Md., in lieu of flowers.

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