STOCKTON, Calif. – Prosecutors in Northern California say a gun stolen from Stockton’s mayor was used to kill a 13-year-old boy last year.

The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office says one of two guns stolen from Mayor Anthony Silva was the murder weapon in the killing of Rayshawn Harris.

Prosecutors say Harris was killed by a .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol registered to Silva. The teen was shot to death Feb. 23, 2015, while he stood in his driveway.

The attorney’s office said in a report Friday that Silva provided no explanation for why he failed to notify authorities the gun had been stolen from his home until one month after Harris’ death. Silva, who is seeking re-election, says in a statement he feels terrible about the teen’s death.

KRAKOW, Poland – Pope Francis asked hundreds of thousands of young people during a vigil in Poland to pray for the people suffering during the war in Syria.

Francis spoke on Saturday evening in a huge meadow outside of the southern city of Krakow following testimony by three young people, including Rand Mittri, a 26-year-old from the Syrian city of Aleppo who spoke about the suffering and death in her homeland from the five-year war that has killed hundreds of thousands and forced millions to flee their homeland.

Later, in a speech, Francis called for prayers for war victims in Syria and elsewhere.

ISTANBUL – Dozens of employees at Turkey’s highest court have been suspended from their jobs as part of the government crackdown in the wake of a failed military coup, authorities said Saturday.

Sixty-four employees at the Constitutional Court were suspended until an assessment could be made on any possible links they have to the July 15 attempted coup, the court said in a statement. Eight other employees had already been dismissed and were detained on July 18, it said.

Nearly 70,000 people in Turkey have been suspended or dismissed from their jobs, according to the latest figures cited by the state-run Anadolu news agency, affecting workers in the judiciary, the education system, media, health care and other sectors. It’s part of a broad crackdown by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government on those suspected of ties to a U.S.-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who the government says was behind the attempted coup.

Associated Press