Summary

  • Nine people killed by gunman at African-American church

  • Police say suspect Dylann Roof, 21, is in custody

  • He was arrested four hours away in Shelby, N Carolina

  • Officers are treating it as a hate crime

  • Victims have been named, aged from 26 to 87

  • President Obama calls for shift in US attitudes to gun violence

Live Reporting

Paul Blake, Tom Geoghegan, Thom Poole, Ashley Gold and Joel Gunter

  1. The local government in Berkeley County, South Carolina, tweeted this about Rev Sharonda Singleton, 45, who was killed in the attack:

  2. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan tweets:

  3. Paper apologises for gun ad

    Charleston’s the Post and Courier has apologised after carrying an advert for a gun store on some of its editions earlier. The image has been very widely shared on social media. In response to a complaint on Facebook, the paper said it was a “deeply regrettable coincidence”.

  4. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan tweets:

  5. Pinckney portrait

    Cassie Cope, a reporter with South Carolina's the State newspaper, tweets:

  6. Bomb threat clear

    The bomb threat at the Morris Brown AME church has been cleared, Charleston County Sheriff's office says.

  7. Bomb threat

    There has been a bomb threat at the Morris Brown AME Church in South Carolina, the site of vigil for the shooting victims. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool is there.

  8. Coroner to give press conference

    Charleston county coroner Rae Wooten will speak to the press at 15:00 local time, about an hour from now.

  9. 'We are with you'

    The Charleston Museum has tweeted a message of condolence for those affected by the shooting.

  10. Obama statement in full

    The White House has tweeted the full video of the president's statement.

  11. Dylann Roof's home

    Cynthia Roldan, a journalist from Charleston's Post and Courier, visited the suspect's home but was told to leave.

  12. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool tweets this quote:

  13. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan tweets:

  14. Mark Knoller, from CBS News, tweets:

  15. 'Tragedy'

    James Clyburn, a senior Democrat who represents South Carolina, says he is "distraught" by the attack, and highlights a quote from Martin Luther King:

  16. Tributes

    The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan tweets:

  17. Showing solidarity

    Instagram users have taken to sharing images under the #prayforcharleston hashtag in a sign of solidarity with the city. 

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  18. 'Senseless'

    Gabrielle Giffords, the former US politician who survived an assassination attempt, tweets:

  19. Suspect named

    The Charleston Post and Courier reports that the FBI has confirmed the suspect's identity as 21-year-old Dylann Roof.

  20. 'Where do we go from here?'

    The BBC's Outside Source programme has compiled some of the stunned reactions to the shooting.