Charleston church shooting

When

17 Jun 2015

Kind

Shooting

Coordinates

32.79° N, 79.93° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Charleston church shooting.

Nine people are shot and killed during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historically black church, one of them being church pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. The accused gunman, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof, is apprehended by police the next morning.

2015 mass shooting in South Carolina, U.S.

On June 17, 2015, a terrorist mass shooting and anti-Black hate crime occurred in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed and another was injured during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. All ten victims were African Americans.

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