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Dot Scott of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People said the shooter may not have drawn attention because the church is a tourist draw.
“It’s not out of the ordinary that folks just walk into the sanctuary and sit and listen to what’s going on,” Scott told CNN.
The handsome Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church – which on Thursday became the focal point for a grieving community – is the oldest such church in America’s southern states.
It was founded in 1816 and in 1822 was investigated for its involvement with an unsuccessful planned slave revolt.
The shooting is the latest in a long list of mass shootings in the United States.
The deadliest in recent years include the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, when 32 were killed, and the December 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, when a total of 27 people were killed, including 20 children.
In August 2012, six people were shot dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin by a neo-Nazi.
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