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Church shooting in SC***Update**Suspect Identified/Captured
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:16 pm
Roof was captured in Shelby, North Carolina Thursday morning, more than 12 hours after the massacre.
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Roof was captured more than 12 hours after a collection of law enforcement agencies ranging from the Charleston Police Department to the FBI launched a manhunt.
Shelby, North Carolina, is a nearly four-hour drive from Charleston.
Roof’s arrest capped a harrowing stretch that brought bustling downtown Charleston to a crawl and included a bomb scare at the church shortly after the shooting.
Cops described Roof as extremely dangerous and pleaded with the public to come forward with information about the case.
After releasing a description of Roof on Wednesday night, police circulated a wanted poster with Roof’s name on it on Thursday morning. Hours after putting out the wanted posted, police announced Roof’s arrest.
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According to Dot Scott, president of the Charleston NAACP, a female survivor told her family members the gunman initially sat down in the church before opening fire.
A shooting survivor reported that the gunman reloaded five times and said “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over the country.”
Scott told the Post and Courier in Charleston that the gunman told the woman she could escape and said he was letting her live so she could the world what he had done.
Nine people were killed in the attack, including Clementa Pinckney, who’s the church’s pastor and a state senator.
Obama said he and First Lady Michelle were friends with Pastor Pinckney. “To say our thoughts and prayers are with them … doesn’t say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel,” he said.
A five-year-old girl escaped the race hate massacre by playing dead, it was revealed early today.
A black woman churchgoer was also freed by the white shooter so she could “tell the world what had happened.”
Family members who were being briefed by chaplains after the shooting reportedly said that a five-year-old girl survived the attack after she was told to play dead by her grandmother.
It has been suggested that the shooting was timed to coincide with two large political rallies in the city, as just hours before Rev Pinckney met with Hillary Clinton as part of her presidential campaign and Jeb Bush was also due to visit Charleston Thursday before canceling his appearance in the wake of the massacre.
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The FBI identified the shooter as Dylann Roof of Columbia, South Carolina. An uncle of Roof's said he recognized the man in the surveillance photo as his nephew.
"The more I look at him, the more I'm convinced, that's him," Carson Cowles, 56, told Reuters in a phone interview.
Law enforcement agents were present at Roof's home, Cowles said, adding he believed the shooter's father had recently bought him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WTVD) -- Authorities in Charleston, South Carolina are responding to a shooting at a church.
It happened about 9 p.m. at a church on Calhoun Street according to WCIV-TV.
They said multiple people were shot, and the shooter is not in custody.
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A frantic manhunt was on in South Carolina, hours after a "horrible scoundrel" opened fire in a historic African-American church in downtown Charleston, killing nine, including the prominent pastor and state senator, during a regular prayer meeting.
Police immediately branded the shooting spree, which began just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, a hate crime, and released surveillance images of a white man fleeing the scene at 180-year-old Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after the horrific incident, which left six women and three men dead.
"This is an unspeakable and unfathomable act by somebody filled with hate and a deranged mind," Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley said in a Thursday morning press conference. He vowed that authorities were "committed to finding this horrible scoundrel."
Lainie Fritz ?@lainiefritz 2h2 hours ago
Shooter attended bible study for almost an hour before opening fire. @WCBD #CharlestonShooting
The Associated Press ?@AP 2h2 hours ago
The latest on Charleston shooting: 6 female, 3 male victims, police say; no other details: https://apne.ws/1JWrVK4
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State House Minority leader Todd Rutherford told The Associated Press that the church's pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, was among those killed.
so sad...
This post was edited on 6/18/15 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:20 pm to taylormade
I will hold back my opinions until the races of the shooter and victims are released.
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:21 pm to taylormade
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A shooting in downtown Charleston has resulted in fatalities, police there confirm, and reports on social media are that there at least eight dead.
The shooting took place at about 9 p.m. ET, and the gunman is still on the loose, police told the Charleston Post and Courier.
As a location, the police department via Twitter released an address that matches that of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
An emergency medical worker told people on the street to "drive far away or to go indoors," Boughton tweeted at about 9:45 p.m. EDT.
CNN reported the shooting happened at a church.
The shooting took place at about 9 p.m. ET, and the gunman is still on the loose, police told the Charleston Post and Courier.
As a location, the police department via Twitter released an address that matches that of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
An emergency medical worker told people on the street to "drive far away or to go indoors," Boughton tweeted at about 9:45 p.m. EDT.
CNN reported the shooting happened at a church.
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@AaronApolloCamp 3m3 minutes ago
Aaron Camp retweeted AJC
Report of mass shooting at a predominantly-black church in Charleston, SC. #Disgusting
This post was edited on 6/17/15 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:23 pm to GEAUXmedic
I don't want to make this about me, but I was down there just 10 days ago....WHEW!!
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:26 pm to GEAUXmedic
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there at least eight dead.
Holy shite
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:27 pm to GRTiger
Damn. Prayers for those families. Terrible.
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:27 pm to GEAUXmedic
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a predominantly-black church in Charleston, SC.
Who paints a church mostly black?
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:28 pm to Btrtigerfan
People on twitter say the guy just walked into the church and opened fire.
Satanists?
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Who paints a church mostly black?
Satanists?
This post was edited on 6/17/15 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:28 pm to taylormade
Terrible, regardless of color.
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:28 pm to GEAUXmedic
The church name has 15 syllables
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:29 pm to taylormade
AT LEAST EIGHT DEAD.
Oh boy..... god help everyone out there
Oh boy..... god help everyone out there
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:30 pm to theunknownknight
Some are already talking about it being a hate crime, before even knowing who did it.. there will be a shite storm if it is...
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:31 pm to fleaux
oh here we go:
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“@ErikaWCNC: #Charleston shooting suspect is 21 year old white male, grey sweatshirt/hoodie, blue jeans, timberland boots, clean shaven”
This post was edited on 6/17/15 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:32 pm to GEAUXmedic
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Some are already talking about it being a hate crime, before even knowing who did it.. there will be a shite storm if it is...
But if it's a hate crime against black Christians by a not white then it will disappear quickly
This post was edited on 6/17/15 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 6/17/15 at 9:32 pm to GEAUXmedic
The first thing I thought was this is going to be a white guy that shot up a black church.
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