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

  1. 'Heartbroken'published at 14:33 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Todd Rutherford, the Democratic House Minority Leader in South Carolina, tweets:

  2. 'Truly unbelievable'published at 14:11 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Christina Elmore, a journalist with Charleston's the Post and Courier newspaper, tweets:

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  3. 'Black cloth'published at 13:37 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Journalist Will Whitson tweets:

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  4. 'Massacre'published at 13:31 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    The front cover of the New York Daily News:

  5. 'Noon vigil'published at 13:27 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Journalist Laura Joyce Gaton tweets:

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  6. 'Churches define Charleston'published at 12:41 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Journalist David Caraviello tweets:

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  7. 'Deranged mind'published at 12:13 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Local journalist DaShawn Brown tweets:

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