COLUMBIA, SC
A librarian and recent college
graduate are among the nine people killed by a white gunman in a black church
in downtown Charleston.
State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the
pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Church, had already been identified as one
of those killed.
This photo was posted by one of
Roof’s Facebook friends from Roof’s Facebook page. The vanity plate says
Confederate States of America. | Ellis, Sarah FACEBOOK
Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten
said Thursday the others have been identified as Cynthia Hurd, 54; Tywanza
Sanders, 26; Sharonda Singleton; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; Susie
Jackson, 87; the Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr.; and DePayne Doctor.
Sanders had recently graduated from
Allen University. Hurd worked for Charleston County’s library system for 31
years. Doctor was an enrollment counselor at Southern Wesleyan University’s
Charleston Campus, according to a friend.
From the Associated Press
Previous coverage:
The suspect in a Charleston AME
church shooting that killed nine, including state Sen. Clementa Pinckney,
Wednesday night was captured Thursday in Shelby, N.C., authorities say.
Authorities named 21-year-old Dylann
Storm Roof, of the Columbia area, as the suspect in the massacre at Emanuel AME
church. Pinckney, a longtime South Carolina legislator who was pastor of the
church, is among the dead.
In a news conference around 11:45
a.m. Thursday, Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said Roof was arrested after
a traffic stop in Shelby, a town about 45 miles outside of Charlotte.
Police received a tip from a citizen
about a suspicious vehicle.
Mullen would not talk about whether
the suspect admitted to the crime or whether police found any weapons in the
vehicle.
Mullen said Roof was cooperative
with the officer who stopped him. Authorities believe that Roof acted alone.
Mullen said police received a number
of tips after surveillance videos were released publicly.
SLED agents and Charleston officers
are travelling to North Carolina to help process the scene, Mullen said.
Law enforcement officials from
multiple agencies were gathered at 10428 Garners Ferry Road in Eastover, Roof’s
last known address, earlier Thursday. The address is listed on court records
from Roof’s arrest in March on a drug-possession charge.
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