Nine people were shot to death during a prayer meeting inside Charleston's …show more content…
"This is inexplicable," Riley said. "It is the most intolerable and unbelievable act possible ... The only reason someone could walk into church and shoot people praying is out of hate." In this article Chief said he believed it was a hate crime because Dylann Roof came from Columbia to an all-black church to kill. Dylann said himself that he wanted to start a raise war the shooting took place at about 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Mayor Joe Riley stated. Emanuel is the oldest AME church in the South and has one of the oldest and largest black congregations. Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement: "The NAACP was founded to fight against racial hatred and we are outraged that 106 years later, we are faced today with another mass hate crime. The church members were shoot as they sat in their prayer meeting as Dylann joined and they welcomed him in with open arms. A survivor told family members and others that the gunman initially sat down in the church for a while before opening fire. Daylann roof stated and so did the survivor he was letting her live so she could tell others what happened. One of the deceased was the state senator who was the pastor of the church, Democrat Clementa Pinckney he was Dyalann Roof first