[Magdalen] Please Pray - Shooting in Charleston, SC church

[Ginga Wilder]

Friends,
The coroner has released the names of the people who were killed.  The Post
and Courier has a bit of biographical information on them.  I can tell you
these victims were the best of the best people in Charleston.  Ginga

In all, three people survived the shooting. The nine who died were black.
They were:

--Clementa Pinckney, 41, the primary pastor who also served as a state
senator.

--Cynthia Hurd, 54, St. Andrews regional branch manager for the Charleston
County Public Library system.

--Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45, a church pastor, speech therapist and
coach of the girls’ track and field team at Goose Creek High School.

--Tywanza Sanders, 26, who had a degree in business administration from
Allen University, where Pinckney also attended.

--Ethel Lance, 70, a retired Gilliard Center employee who has worked
recently as a church janitor.

--Susie Jackson, 87, Lance’s cousin who was a longtime church member.

--DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49, a pastor who retired in 2005 as Charleston
County director of the Community Development Block Grant Program.

--Myra Thompson, 59, a pastor at the church.

--Daniel Simmons Sr., 74, a pastor, who died in a hospital operating room.

It was about 8:16 p.m. Wednesday when Roof walked into Emanuel AME church
at 110 Calhoun St., where the clergy and members had gathered for a regular
Bible study and prayer service. He sat for almost an hour until he rose and
started shooting, police said. Someone called for help around 9:06 p.m.

Of the three survivors, according to a local NAACP official, one woman
later told family members that the gunman let her live so she could tell
everyone else about what had happened there.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:27 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm afraid many people will say, as an answer to your first
> question, "South Carolina."
>
> The NRA will most likely claim that if the pastor and his prayer
> group had been armed they would have been able to defend
> themselves.
> -M
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:14 PM, ROGER STOKES <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
> > I am also glad he has been captured alive.  Two other thoughts - what
> sort
> > of home life did he have to feel like this and be given a gun as a
> birthday
> > present?  What will the NRA have to say - if anything?
> >
> >
>