A gunman who opened fire killing nine people in a race-hate crime at an African American church in South Carolina let one woman escape so she could tell the world what happened, according to eyewitnesses. Eight of the victims died at the scene, and one later in a hospital. At least one injured person is being treated in a hospital. Rev. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the church and South Carolina state senator, is among the dead and his sister has also reportedly been shot.
Meanwhile, family members who were being briefed by chaplains after the shooting reportedly said that a five-year-old girl survived the attack after she was told to play dead by her grandmother. Charleston police chief Gregory Mullen said in a news conference shortly after the incident: 'This is a tragedy that no community should have to experience… It is senseless, unfathomable…we are going to do everything in our power to find this individual, to lock him up, to make sure he does not hurt anyone else…'
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