「あなたを赦します」ヘイトクライムによる銃乱射事件、遺族が容疑者に語りかける

犠牲者の代表は法廷にいたが、ルーフ容疑者の目を見つめ、一人づつ、彼に赦しの言葉をかけた。

サウスカロライナ州チャールストンにあるアフリカ系アメリカ人が通うエマニュエル・アフリカン・メソジスト・エピスコパル教会で銃が乱射され、男女9人が死亡した事件で6月19日、ディラン・ルーフ容疑者(21)への初めての保釈審問がチャールストン拘置所が開かれた。

ルーフ容疑者はストライプの囚人服を着て、後方の両側に2人の警官が監視するなか、別室でモニターカメラ越しで審問に臨んだ。モニター画面で見ると、ルーフ容疑者は保釈審問の間、表情を変えなかった。犠牲者の代表は法廷にいて、容疑者の様子を見ることができ、ルーフ容疑者は法廷のすべての言葉を聞くことができた。

遺族はルーフ容疑者の目を見つめ、一人づつ、彼に赦しの言葉をかけた(動画の2分40秒すぎ)。

「あなたを赦します」死亡したイーゼル・ランスさん(70)の娘ナディーン・コリエールさんはルーフ容疑者に語った。「あなたは、私からかけがえのない人を奪いました。私はもう二度と母に話すことはできません。もう二度と母を抱きしめることもできません。しかし、私はあなたを赦します。あなたの魂にご慈悲を。あなたは私を傷つけました。あなたは多くの人を傷つけました。それでも、私はあなたを赦します」

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拘置所前で会見するナディーン・コリエールさん

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死亡したイーゼル・ランスさんの遺影を手にする孫のナジー・ワシントンさん

同じく犠牲者となったティワンザ・サンダースさん(26)の母フェリシアさんは次のように語った。

「水曜夜に行われる聖書の勉強会に、両手を広げてお迎えします。あなたは、私が知る中でも最も美しい人たちの命を奪いました。私の身体中の細胞が傷つき、痛みます。私が元のように戻ることはないでしょう。ティワンザは私の息子であり、ヒーローでした」

死亡したダニエル・シモンズさん(74)の孫アラナ・シモンズさんもルーフ容疑者に語りかけた。

「憎しみが勝つことはありません」とアラナさんは語った。「私の祖父、そしてその他の犠牲になられた方々は憎しみのせいで命を失いました。みんながあなたの魂のために嘆願すること、それによって彼らは愛の中で生き、彼らの遺したものが愛の中で生きる証となるのです。憎しみが勝つことがないように、裁判所のみなさんにお願いしたい」

裁判官はルーフ容疑者に、告訴内容についての確認を行い、次回の審問は10月23日と2016年2月5日に行うことを告げた。

ルーフ容疑者はカメラに向かって「はい、ありがとうございます」と答えた。

ルーフ容疑者は武器使用の罪で保釈金を100万ドルと設定されたが、他の罪での保釈金は認められなかった。

オバマ大統領は自身のTwitterで、遺族の寛大さを称えた。

最悪の悲劇のまっただ中で、遺族の皆さんからアメリカ人の良識と高潔さが伝わってきた。

チャールストン 銃乱射事件
Charleston Shooting(01 of47)
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Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(02 of47)
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Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in North Charleston, S.C, on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old man accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance Friday, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP, Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(03 of47)
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Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(04 of47)
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Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(05 of47)
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Dylann Roof appears via video before Judge James Gosnell during a bond hearing at a court in North Charleston, S.C. on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
US-SHOOTING-CHARLESTON(06 of47)
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Defendant Dylann Roof is seen on a video feed during a bond hearing at the Charleston County Detention Center June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof was ordered to remain in custody on nine murder charges Friday, at an emotional bond hearing during which relatives of the victims expressed their grief. Roof\'s attorney, public defender Ashley Pennington, said his 21-year-old client was prepared to \'accept the no bond arrangement.\' Judge James Gosnell set the next court hearing in the case for October 23.\n AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
US-SHOOTING-CHARLESTON(07 of47)
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Defendant Dylann Roof is seen on a video feed during a bond hearing at the Charleston County Detention Center June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof was ordered to remain in custody on nine murder charges Friday, at an emotional bond hearing during which relatives of the victims expressed their grief. Roof\'s attorney, public defender Ashley Pennington, said his 21-year-old client was prepared to \'accept the no bond arrangement.\' Judge James Gosnell set the next court hearing in the case for October 23.\n AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
Charleston Shooting(08 of47)
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Nadine Collier, left, the daughter of Ethel Lance, one of the nine people killed in Wednesday\'s shooting at Emanuel AME Church, speaks to the media about her mother following the bond hearing for the suspected gunman Friday, June 19, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(09 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: Nadine Collier (C) walks into Centralized Bond Hearing Court and Preliminary Hearing Court to attend the bond hearing for Dylann Roof who is accused of killing her mother, Ethel Lance, and eight others during a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof, 21 years old, is suspected of killing nine people during a prayer meeting in the church, which is one of the nation\'s oldest black churches in Charleston. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Charleston Shooting(10 of47)
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This April 2015 photo released by the Lexington County (S.C.) Detention Center shows Dylann Roof, 21. Charleston Police identified Roof as the shooter who opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday, June 17, 2015, killing several people. (Lexington County (S.C.) Detention Center via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(11 of47)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people Wednesday night at the historic The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(12 of47)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people Wednesday night at the historic The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(13 of47)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people Wednesday night at the historic The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting Victims(14 of47)
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Walter Jackson holds a photo of his mother Susie Jackson, one of the nine people killed in Wednesday\'s shooting at Emanuel AME Church, as he stands on his front porch Friday, June 19, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
US-SHOOTING-CHARLESTON(15 of47)
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Loved ones of victims and others attend a vigil at TD Arena for victims of the recent church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina on June 19, 2015. For someone reportedly bent on igniting a race war, Dylann Storm Roof had little to say for himself in the first of what will be many court appearances. The 21-year-old suspect in Wednesday night\'s massacre at an African-American church Bible study class spoke only to answer a judge\'s questions at a 14-minute bail hearing. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
Charleston Shooting(16 of47)
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Annie Simmons, wife of 24 years of Daniel Simmons Sr., one of the nine people killed in Wednesday\'s shooting at Emanuel AME Church, holds a photo of her husband at her home Friday, June 19, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(17 of47)
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Charleston police Lt. S. Siprko, left, watches a woman carry flowers, Thursday, June 18, 2015 to a makeshift memorial in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. Shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, 21, was captured without resistance in North Carolina Thursday after an all-night manhunt, Charleston\'s police chief Greg Mullen said. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting Confederate Flag(18 of47)
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The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Tensions over the Confederate flag flying in the shadow of South Carolinaâs Capitol rose this week in the wake of the killings of nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
APTOPIX Charleston Shooting(19 of47)
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Noah Nicolaisen, of Charleston, S.C., kneels at a makeshift memorial, Thursday, June 18, 2015, down the street from where a man opened fire Wednesday night during a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church, killing several people in what authorities are calling a hate crime. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Obama Charleston Shooting(20 of47)
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, finishes speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015, on the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prior to his departure to Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
APTOPIX Charleston Shooting(21 of47)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, center, is escorted from the Shelby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people Wednesday night at the historic The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(22 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: People hug as they pay their respects in front of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people on June 18, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Charleston Shooting(23 of47)
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Tyler Francis, right, hugs Shondrey Dear after praying together, Thursday, June 18, 2015 at a make-shift memorial near the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. Shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, 21, was captured without resistance in North Carolina Thursday after an all-night manhunt, Charleston\'s police chief Greg Mullen said. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(24 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: Rhonda Johnson (L) hugs Joyce Gilliard as they pay their respects to those lost in front of Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed on June 17 in a mass shooting during a prayer meeting at the church. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
South Carolina Senators Mourn Death Of Sen. Pinckney In Church Shooting(25 of47)
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COLUMBIA, SC - JUNE 18: Flowers mark the absence of South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney in the senate chambers June 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Legislators gathered Thursday morning to honor Pinckney and the eight others killed yesterday at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) (credit:Sean Rayford via Getty Images)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(26 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: People pray together as they pay their respects in front of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people on June 18, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(27 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: People hug as they pay their respects in front of Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed on June 17 in a mass shooting during a prayer meeting at the church. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
South Carolina Senators Mourn Death Of Sen. Pinckney In Church Shooting(28 of47)
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COLUMBIA, SC - JUNE 18: The South Carolina and American flags fly at half mast as the Confederate flag unfurls below at the Confederate Monument June 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Legislators gathered Thursday morning to honor their co-worker Clementa Pinckney and the eight others killed yesterday at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) (credit:Sean Rayford via Getty Images)
US-SHOOTING-CHARLESTON(29 of47)
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Reverend Al Sharpton (C) and others pray outside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 18, 2015, after a mass shooting at the church the night before. Police captured a white suspect in a mass killing at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest gun massacre to leave the country reeling. Police detained 21-year-old Dylann Roof, shown wearing the flags of defunct white supremacist regimes in pictures taken from social media, after nine churchgoers were shot dead. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(30 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: An exterior view of Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed on June 17 in a mass shooting during a prayer meeting at the church. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Nine Dead After Church Shooting In Charleston(31 of47)
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 18: Daniel Flessas comforts two women after they laid flowers in front of Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed on June 17 in a mass shooting during a prayer meeting at the church. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (credit:Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
Lynch Charleston Shooting(32 of47)
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch listens members of the media\'s questions on the recent church shooting in Charleston, SC., during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015. Lynch said: \"I can confirm that there is a suspect in custody\" in church shooting. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(33 of47)
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Officers stand down the street from where a white man opened fire Wednesday during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church killing nine people in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(34 of47)
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A law enforcement official sits in her car while blocking off a section of Calhoun Street near the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(35 of47)
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Investigators work outside the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015, following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(36 of47)
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Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen, center, addresses the media while joined by Mayor Joseph Riley, right, down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
CHARLESTON SHOOTING DETAIL(37 of47)
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FIX STATE NAME FOR SHELBY, NORTH CAROLINA. Map locates Charleston, S.C., site of a church shooting.; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm; (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(38 of47)
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The steeple of Emanuel AME Church is visible as police close off a section of Calhoun Street early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(39 of47)
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Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(40 of47)
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Police close off a section of Calhoun Street near the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(41 of47)
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An FBI agent walks across the street from the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(42 of47)
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Worshippers gather to pray in a hotel parking lot across the street from the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(44 of47)
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Police walk down the street from the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(45 of47)
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Police close off a section of Calhoun Street near the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(46 of47)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Charleston Shooting(47 of47)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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