Charleston Shooting, South Carolina: An unidentified white male walked into a historic African-American church during bible study class and open fire on worshippers, killing 9 people on Wednesday evening.
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The unidentified man walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest AME church in the South and started a shooting spree, in what is being investigated as a hate crime. The suspect was still at large at the time of this report.
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Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said :
The only reason someone would walk into a church and shoot people that were praying is hate.
Eight people died immediately at the scene, the ninth person died on the way to the hospital, a police official said. There were survivors, but Charleston police chief, Greg Mullen,won't say how many people were at the service at the time of the shooting.
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Who Is The Suspect
Police have said the suspect was wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and boots. He is clean-shaven white man in his 20s, with a slender look.
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Charleston police chief, Greg Mullen said :
He obviously is extremely dangerous.We will put all our resources, we will put all of our energy in finding this individual
Also the governor of South Carolina, Governor Nikki Haley said :
While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we'll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another.
Charleston police department is asking anyone with useful information to call the emergency service, 911.
