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Who was responsible for the Charleston church shooting?

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Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man motivated by white supremacist ideology, carried out the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof sat with a dozen members of the church during a weekly Bible study before opening fire, killing nine Black parishioners. Emanuel AME Church is one of the most historic Black churches in the South.