http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/us/charleston-south-carolina-shooting/index.html

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45000.html

Shooting in downtown Charleston, South Carolina at an AME Church, during a Bible study.
9 dead, 1 died in the hospital.
The police Chief,Greg Mullan will not elaborate as to how many people survived.

Within minutes it was all over social media that it was hate crime, then on TV news media. Now police are calling it, a hate crime.

The suspect is still at LARGE.
He is a white male, blonde, approx. 21 yrs old.

Oh my I am in shocked, it is on the news here. Why would he do that?
My heart goes out to the people of that state and the country.
Sorry for your loss.

During a Bible study !?!?
* Wednesday's are common for that here with Protestant Churches.


A Maniac ! Who ever he is.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/18/police-respond-to-shooting-at-sc-church/ _____________________________

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/us/church-attacked-in-charleston-south-carolina.html?_r=0&referrer=


Police gathered outside the Emanuel A.M.E. Church after a shooting on Wednesday in Charleston, S.C.
RICHARD ELLIS / EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
By JASON HOROWITZ, NICK CORASANITI and ASHLEY SOUTHALL
JUNE 17, 2015
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white gunman opened fire Wednesday night at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, S.C., killling nine people before fleeing and setting off an overnight manhunt, the police said.

At a news conference with Charleston’s mayor early Thursday, the police chief, Greg Mullen, called the shooting a hate crime.

“It is unfathomable that somebody in today’s society would walk into a church while they are having a prayer meeting and take their lives,” he said.

The police said the gunman walked into the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church around 9 p.m. and began shooting.


A man knelt across the street from where police officers gathered outside the church.
WADE SPEES / THE POST AND COURIER, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eight people died at the scene, Chief Mullen said. Two people were taken to the Medical University of South Carolina, and one of them died on the way.


“Obviously, this is the worst night of my career,’’ Chief Mullen said. “This is clearly a tragedy in the city of Charleston.’’

City officials did not release information about the victims and did not say how many people were in the church during the shooting. Hospital officials declined to comment.

Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said the city was offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the gunman, whom the police described as a clean-shaven white man about 21 years old who was wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots. Chief Mullen described him as “extremely dangerous.”


Worshipers down the street from the church on Wednesday.
DAVID GOLDMAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
”To walk into a church and shoot someone, is out of pure hatred,” the mayor said as he walked away after the news conference.

Law enforcement officers from the F.B.I.; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division; and other agencies were assisting. Chief Mullen said the police were tracking the suspect with police dogs.

Around 10:45 p.m., police officers escorted a man in handcuffs who appeared to match the suspect’s description. But officials said later that they were still searching for the gunman.

In the first hours after the shooting, police blocked reporters and passersby from approaching the church, opposite a Marriott Courtyard, because of a bomb threat. Many among the cluster of media were political reporters in town to cover campaign events of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush.


Helicopters with searchlights circled overhead, and a group of pastors knelt and prayed across the street.

“The question is, ‘Why God?’,” a man wearing a shirt bearing the name of the Empowerment Missionary Baptist Church said during the prayer.

Later, a group of church leaders gathered at the corner of Calhoun and King Streets, a few blocks from where the shooting occurred, and held an impromptu news conference. Tory Fields, a member of the Charleston County Ministers Conference, said he believed the suspect had targeted the victims because of their race.


”It’s obvious that it’s race,” he said. “What else could it be? You’ve got a white guy going into an African American church. That’s choice. He chose to go into that church and harm those people. That’s choice.”

The church is one of the nation’s oldest black churches. The pastor, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, is a state senator. It was not clear if he was at the church at the time of the shooting.

The Gothic Revival church was built in 1891 and is considered a historically significant building, according to the National Park Service.

The congregation was formed by black members of Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal Church who broke away “over disputed burial ground,” according to the website of the National Park Service.

In 1822, one of the church’s co-founders, Denmark Vesey, tried to foment a slave rebellion in Charleston, the church’s website says. The plot was foiled by the authorities and 35 people were executed, including Mr. Vesey.

The church houses the oldest black congregation south of Baltimore, the Park Service said.

Gov. Nikki R. Haley said in a statement that she and her family were praying for the victims.

“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,’’ the governor said. ”Please join us in lifting up the victims and their families with our love and prayers.”

Late Wednesday, the campaign staff of Mr. Bush, the former governor of Florida who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, said he was canceling appearances planned for Thursday in Charleston because of the shooting. Mrs. Clinton was in Charleston Wednesday, but an aide said she had left the city before the shooting.

Jason Horowitz and Nick Corasaniti reported from Charleston, and Ashley Southall from New York.

Disgusting.

I know it was disgusting. What the heck happened to him before for this result.
Those poor people and their families. Have they caught him yet? Last time I heard he was on the loose.

Animal... this guy is not human. Just a cold blooded killer. And it would appear that it is a hate crime. I am sure this coward will kill himself to further deny the families the satisfaction of seeing him sentenced to death.

Just a disgusting act.

It is somewhat of a numbers game. If one in a million is a nut filled with hate, when there is a hundred million, you have a hundred nuts. The numbers multiply with the percentage who get no education, join gangs, etc. The factors keep increasing to produce persons who cannot function in society. Violence has become the norm and our society is becoming numb to it.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-release-photos-south-carolina-church-shooting-suspect/story?id=31851054.

Manhunt for South Carolina Church Shooting Suspect


By TOM LIDDY Jun 18, 2015, 6:24 AM, est..

WATCH: Special Report: Shooting at Historic South Carolina Church
Charleston Police Department
Police and federal law enforcement agencies were in the midst an all-out manhunt Thursday morning for the gunman they say is responsible for killing 9 people in a Charleston South Carolina church Wednesday night in what police described as a hate crime.

The suspect opened fire on a bible study group at the historic black Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun street, killing eight people in an "unfathomable" act of violence. One other person was rushed to the hospital and died. Police originally said two people were hospitalized.

In a chilling twist, police said the alleged gunman, whom the mayor called a "horrible scoundrel," was inside the church attending the prayer meeting with worshipers for almost an hour.

Police said that three of the victims were males and six were females. Their ages were not clear.
Three people survived the shooting, but details about them were not immediately available.

"This is a situation that is unacceptable in any society and especially in our society and our city," Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said.

Charleston Police Department
PHOTO: Charleston, South Carolina police released images, June 18, 2015, showing a car driven by a man suspected in a deadly church shooting.
Early Thursday morning, police released pictures from surveillance footage showing the suspect, a younger white man, approximately 21-25 years old, as well as the car he was driving, police said.

David Goldman/AP Photo
PHOTO: Worshippers gather to pray down the street from the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina.
"This is an extremely dangerous individual," Mullen said.
The suspect was described as approximately 5-foot-9, wearing a sweatshirt with distinctive markings and Timberland boots, police said. Joining the search was the FBI and state law enforcement.

Police also said the car he was driving had a "very distinctive" license plate. Officials would not elaborate on the make and model of the car.

David Goldman/AP Photo
PHOTO: Police close off a section of Calhoun Street near the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina.
"This is a all hands on deck effort with the community and law enforcement," Mullen said.
Police said they had set up a tip line - 1-800-CALL-FBI, advised the public to be alert and said to call 911 and not approach.

"When people go out they should be vigilant," Mullen said"

Started hearing about this heinous event around 4:AM {central time}...and then when I opened my lap top and read some of the comments that scroll up as the headlines are belched out onto the webpages --- SMH

People flipped back & forth with they're opinions from; SHOCK to asking WHY - Why didn't GOD intervene'?'...say something to that young man and change his heart & mind!

CRAZY has no time limit - has no safe zones - has no race - has no age limit! CRAZY = just needing a place to happen
Prayers for all those that are now dealing directly with this tragic/insanity on this day!

Suspect:





Hopefully they just give him a heavy dose of lead poisoning when they find him.....if he hasnt already taken a cowardly way out.

http://www.ibtimes.com/charleston-shooting-south-carolina-has-19-active-hate-groups-including-kkk-chapters-1972964

CHARLESTON SHOOTING

Charleston Shooting: South Carolina Has 19 Active Hate Groups, Including KKK Chapters
By Elizabeth Whitman
@elizabethwhitty
e.whitman@ibtimes.com
on June 18 2015 9:04 AM EDT


Two chapters of the Ku Klux Klan are among 19 hate groups active in South Carolina. Above, members of the KKK participate in a cross lighting ceremony at a Klansman's home in Warrenville, South Carolina October 23, 2010. Reuters/Rainier Ehrhardt
Hate crimes in South Carolina are coming under renewed scrutiny after a gunman, suspected to be a white male, shot and killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston late Wednesday. The list of active hate groups in the state, which does not have a hate crimes law, contains 19 associations, including two Ku Klux Klan chapters.

According to the Hate Crime Statistics Act a hate crime is one that is committed with “evidence of prejudice based on race, gender or gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity." A hate crime can be “murder, non-negligent manslaughter; forcible rape; aggravated assault, simple assault, intimidation; arson; and destruction, damage or vandalism of property.” Federal authorities said they would investigate Wednesday's attack as a hate crime.

White nationalist, Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, black separatist, neo-confederate and anti-LGBT groups were among the 19 groups included on a list of South Carolina’s active hate groups. Nationally, the number of hate groups has declined in recent years. In 2014, the United States had 784 active hate groups, down from its 2011 peak of 1,018 groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.


In 2007, 127 hate crimes were reported in South Carolina, according to the FBI. The following year, the number rose to 153. But in 2013, the number dropped to 51, FBI numbers show. In July 2014, the KKK distributed leaflets to a South Carolina neighborhood that said “Save Our Land, Join the Klan,” NBC News reported.

Nearly half of the 5,922 hate crimes reported nationally in 2013 were racially based – far more than on any other type of prejudice. Sexual orientation was the next most common, accounting for 20.8 percent of reported hate crimes, FBI statistics show.

“What has our society come to when people in a prayer meeting in the sacred halls of a church can be shot in what is deemed a possible hate crime?” Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, said in a statement released Thursday.


The shooter, who remains at large, reportedly said, “You rape our women and are taking over our country and you have to go,” a survivor of the shooting told NBC reporter Eric King, who revealed the quote in a tweet ahead of the interview.

Related
South Carolina Church Was Founded By Slave Leader
Pastor Killed In Charleston Shooting

SUSPECT has been Identified, Manhunt continues

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/18/police-respond-to-shooting-at-sc-church/

THEY CAUGHT HIM!!!

this sounds retarded, he went to church for an hour and prayed with the people and then stood up and said "im gonna shoot black people". am i the only one who thinks this just sounds retarded?

It doesn't sound retarded.
It sounds TOO CONVENIENT

1NAACP - In trouble & redundant
2- All Sharpton- in trouble & redundant
3- Hillary Clinton - always in trouble
3- AME - church (black)
4- Hate Crime - when other hate crimes against non blacks are ignored
5- Quotes- that aren't quoteable
6- Jeb Bush had to cancel his trip (after Hillary Clinton, called him & about 3 others raciest a week ago)
7- Protests & rioting stopped.
8- Cameras- on all policeman being pushed (& now praised)
9- Immigration - those that dispute the ultra liberal policies, being referred to as racist.
10- Obama's - anti gun agenda
11- Nation of Islam/ ISIS - Christians being killed by NON Muslims

Any more ?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/us/charleston-south-carolina-shooting/index.html.

As much as the FB pages have been 'BLOWING UP' about this incident - look at the quantity of 'COMMENTS' on just this one ABC news link!


http://abcnews.go.com/US/charleston-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof-21-apprehended/story?id=31851054

This young man may have some serious mental history and whether or not it's 'HATE' related - who's to know for sure! When he tells the one remaining woman {that he thought was the only 1} "I'm leaving you alive so you can tell everyone what I did">>>{paraphrased}---seems he may just be craving ATTENTION and found his niche for obtaining that!

Cra-Cra-Crazy...walks among us daily; if we could identify those 'TRIGGERS' {whatever they maybe} wouldn't our lives be so much safer/peaceful?

This is just the first layer of this horrid event.

Cpla facebook pics and booking photo from a previous drug arrest of alledged shooter

Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof was reportedly taking a drug that has been linked with sudden outbursts of violence, fitting the pattern of innumerable other mass shooters who were on or had recently come off pharmaceutical drugs linked to aggression.

According to a CBS News report, earlier this year when cops searched Roof after he was acting suspiciously inside a Bath and Body Works store, they found “orange strips” that Roof told officers was suboxone, a narcotic that is used to treat opiate addiction.

Suboxone is a habit-forming drug that has been connected with sudden outbursts of aggression.
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A user on the MD Junction website relates how her husband “became violent, smashing things and threatening me,” after just a few days of coming off suboxone.

Another poster on the Drugs.com website tells the story of how his personality completely changed as a result of taking suboxone.

The individual relates how he became “nasty” and “violent” just weeks into taking the drug, adding that he would “snap” and be mean to people for no reason.

Another poster reveals how his son-in-law “completely changed on suboxone,” and that the drug sent him into “self-destruct mode.”

A user named ‘Jhalloway’ also tells the story of how her husband’s addiction to suboxone was “ruining our life.”

A poster on a separate forum writes about how he became “horribly aggressive” towards his partner after taking 8mg of suboxone.

A website devoted to horror stories about the drug called SubSux.com also features a post by a woman whose husband obtained a gun and began violently beating his 15-year-old son after taking suboxone.

According to a Courier-Journal report, suboxone “is increasingly being abused, sold on the streets and inappropriately prescribed” by doctors. For some users, it is even more addictive than the drugs it’s supposed to help them quit.

As we previously highlighted, virtually every major mass shooter was taking some form of SSRI or other pharmaceutical drug at the time of their attack, including Columbine killer Eric Harris, ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes and Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza.

As the website SSRI Stories profusely documents, there are literally hundreds of examples of mass shootings, murders and other violent episodes that have been committed by individuals on psychiatric drugs over the past three decades.

Pharmaceutical giants who produce drugs like Zoloft, Prozac and Paxil spend around $2.4 billion dollars a year on direct-to-consumer television advertising every year. By running negative stories about prescription drugs, networks risk losing tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue, which is undoubtedly one of the primary reasons why the connection is habitually downplayed or ignored entirely.


who woulda thunk it, another mass murderer on some kind of prescription pills. but yea, lets keep blaming the guns.