A public Celebration of Life was held at the University of Calgary on Wednesday afternoon to honour the five students who were killed during a house party in the city's northwest on April 15, 2014.

Jordan Segura, Josh Hunter, Kaiti Perras, Zackariah Rathwell, and Lawrence Hong were all murdered at a Brentwood home while celebrating the final day of classes.

Memorial services were held for all five victims last week.

The Celebration of Life at the Jack Simpson Gymnasium at the U of C was an opportunity for family, friends, staff, and fellow students to pay thier respects and remember the young lives that were lost.

The presidents of the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and the Alberta College of Art and Design spoke to the media before the service.

“This is about honouring the victims who were taken from us so senselessly two weeks ago but it’s really a chance to celebrate their passions, their interests and their contributions while they were with us,” said U of C President, Elizabeth Cannon.

“They were five, bright young lives and when we had our tribute on campus at Mount Royal, what struck me was that even though two of the students had been with us briefly, all their lives interacted, some of our students knew one of the five through hockey, another through music,” said MRU President David Docherty. “So the connections, in many ways, were so close between all five of them and other people.”

“I think it’s the beginning of a long healing process. I think it’s really important and that’s why I think it’s important to have all five families and they wanted to be together,” said ACAD president Daniel Doz.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has attended seven memorials for the victims and says the entire community was shaken by the tragedy.

"Our entire community was shaken by this loss," said Nenshi. "The thing that strikes me is that all five of them were remarkably loyal friends at an age where you don't often see that. They were in tight with their friends. They were fiercely loyal to one another as they supported one another through their hopes and their dreams."

The service runs from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Matthew de Grood, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder in their deaths and has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is fit to stand trial.

He is scheduled to return to court in May.

(With files from CTVNews.ca)