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Charleston, South Carolina, Church Shooting - June 19, 2015

Mourners comfort each other in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., two days after a shooting left nine dead.

Nuns from the Daughters of St. Paul pray outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley walks between television interviews outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015.

Flowers were placed outside the Charleston, S.C., church where a gunman killed nine worshipers June 17, 2015.

Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley speaks to the media in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people in Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015.

Flowers and ribbons at a memorial in Charleston, July 19, 2015 (Amanda Scott/VOA)

Flowers and notes of hope and support from the community line the sidewalk in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. , June 19, 2015.

Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the Emanuel AME Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene, June 19, 2015.

Church member and Charleston District Six council member William Gregorie speaks to the media, July 19, 2015. (Amanda Scott/VOA)

An investigator arrives at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church two days after a mass shooting left nine dead during a Bible study at the church in Charleston, S.C., June 19, 2015.