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Congregants at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. hold large photographs of the nine victims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting during a prayer vigil, with clergy and choir standing behind them. Mother Emanuel
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Congregants at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. hold large photographs of the nine victims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting during a prayer vigil, with clergy and choir standing behind them.
Remembering the Emanuel Nine Photographs of the nine victims killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, are held up by congregants during a prayer vigil in June 2015.

Charleston church shooting

2015 mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina
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On June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white man entered one of the most historic Black churches in the United States, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, sat among a dozen Black parishioners for Bible study, then opened fire, killing nine of them. At the time it was the deadliest hate crime at an American house of worship. The shooter was 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who, motivated by white supremacist ideology, planned and carried out a mass shooting...

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