SAN DIEGO -- Funeral services were held Wednesday for Carol Waites, the Lincoln Park woman killed in a gang shooting early New Year's morning.

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Waites, 46, and her friend, 32-year-old Sharon Burton, were killed after the group she was with stopped by Dr J's Liquor store after attending a New Year's Eve service at the True Faith Missionary Baptist Church.

The shooting also wounded a man and left an 8-year-old boy in critical condition.

The victims were outside the store when the attackers arrived in at least one car, got out and fired as many as 50 shots, homicide Sgt. Jorge Duran said.

San Diego Councilman Charles Lewis said police are doing a good job of rounding up suspects and looking for information, but the area's gang problem continues.

On Sunday night, a 17-year-old boy was killed by gang members in the City Heights neighborhood.

"They're fighting each other, but they are getting innocent women and children and they don't know the effects of what that has on a family," Lewis said. "They don't know that that is someone's mother or sister, somebody totally across the country -- and you just impacted this family's life for the rest of their life."

Charles Dorsey was Waites' pastor for 10 years. He told 10News that he is confident the killers will be found, and that Waites' death will serve a greater good.

"There will be closure one way or the other. I might not never see it, you might not ever see it, even the family might not see it, but there will be closure," he told 10News.