US: at least 9 killed in Charleston church massacre
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2015-06-18
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The search for the killer of nine people at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, continues. The police described it as a hate crime. At a prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, others were also wounded.
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Emanuel AME), founded in 1816 in downtown Charleston, is the oldest of its kind in the southern US.
The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a Democrat member of the South Carolina State Senate, was identified among the dead. His sister was also reported killed.
State House of Representatives minority leader J. Todd Rutherford praised Pickney as “a man driven by public service.”
The suspect is thought to be a 21-year-old white male, described as ‘clean-shaven and slender, with sandy blond hair, wearing a gray sweatshirt or hoodie, jeans and Timberland boots’.
Police, federal agents, helicopters, dogs and roadblocks were all involved in the overnight search for the killer.
Information about the victims was not immediat
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Emanuel AME), founded in 1816 in downtown Charleston, is the oldest of its kind in the southern US.
The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a Democrat member of the South Carolina State Senate, was identified among the dead. His sister was also reported killed.
State House of Representatives minority leader J. Todd Rutherford praised Pickney as “a man driven by public service.”
The suspect is thought to be a 21-year-old white male, described as ‘clean-shaven and slender, with sandy blond hair, wearing a gray sweatshirt or hoodie, jeans and Timberland boots’.
Police, federal agents, helicopters, dogs and roadblocks were all involved in the overnight search for the killer.
Information about the victims was not immediat
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