A community-wide service to promote healing for the victims, residents of Cherokee County and law enforcement in the wake of the recent serial killings will be held July 28 at 7 p.m. at Restoration Church International, 1905 N. Limestone St., the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office announced.

The service is being labeled "A time of remembrance and hope."

The church seats between 800 and 1,000 and the service is open to anyone who wants to attend.

The service comes in the wake of five deaths in Cherokee County that police linked to a 41- year-old prison parolee from North Carolina named Patrick Tracy Burris.

Burris was killed in a shootout July 6 with Gaston County (N.C.) Police while they investigated a reported burglary in progress on Dallas- Spencer Mountain Road.

Burris was linked to the killings of local peach farmer Kline Cash on June 27, the killings of Hazel Linder and her daughter Gena Linder Parker on July 1, and the deaths of Stephen Tyler and his daughter Abby, who were both shot July 2 at Stephen Tyler's business in Gaffney. Abby Tyler died July 4.

Restoration Church International also was the site of a community prayer service that was held during the height of the hunt for the serial killer.