Southern Weleyan University sent a press release regarding her death: "As the world mourns for the nine victims in the wake of the June 17 shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, Southern Wesleyan University is mourning the loss of an employee and alumna. DePayne Doctor, admissions coord...
Theshooting took place at the Emanuel AME Church. Thesuspect attended the meeting at the churchWednesday night and stayed for nearly an hour before the deadly gunfire erupted, Police Chief Greg Mullen said. "You can't put your mind around it," the Rev. Norvel Goff, a presiding elder of t...
A Charleston police officer rearranges an item on the memorial in front of Emanuel AME Church Thursday after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) At the historic Emanuel AME Church, the scene of Wednesday's carnage...
During a Thursday morning news conference in Charleston, Riley praised his police chief and the men and women of the Charleston Police Department who responded to Wednesday night’s tragedy at Emanuel AME Church, the historic black house of worship where nine people were shot and killed. We inve...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina —A federal judge entered not guilty pleas Friday on charges against Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white man accused of killing nine African-American parishioners at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month. ...
RELATED VIDEO:Emanuel AME church re-opens for service As the choir, dressed in crisp whites, began to sing, the congregation rose. Many stood with their hands raised high in praise or their heads bowed low in reflection. “The doors to the church are open,” Rev. Dr. Norvell Goff said...
“My grandma was very involved in the church,” said Tim Jackson, grandson of Susie Jackson. Susie Jackson was one of the nine people shot and killed at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday night. “She was just a very caring, loving person,” Tim Jackson said,...
Emanuel AME Church Reopens, Charleston Worshippers Pay Their RespectsDebbie Elliott
Emanuel AME Church Tragedy The Emanuel AME Church shooting (also known as the Charleston church massacre) was a mass shooting on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina,in which nine African Americans (including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney) were killed during a ...
"The Roof Family would like to extend their deepest sympathies and condolences to families of the victims in Wednesday night's shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Words cannot express our shock, grief, and disbelief as to what happened that night," the statement said in part. ...