'Heartbroken'published at 14:33 British Summer Time 18 June 2015
Todd Rutherford, the Democratic House Minority Leader in South Carolina, tweets:
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
Paul Blake, Tom Geoghegan, Thom Poole, Ashley Gold and Joel Gunter
Todd Rutherford, the Democratic House Minority Leader in South Carolina, tweets:
Christina Elmore, a journalist with Charleston's the Post and Courier newspaper, tweets:
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Journalist Will Whitson tweets:
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Journalist Laura Joyce Gaton tweets:
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Journalist David Caraviello tweets:
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Local journalist DaShawn Brown tweets:
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