{"id":4773,"date":"2015-06-18T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2015-06-18T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:02:44","slug":"nine-killed-in-south-carolina-church-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nine-killed-in-south-carolina-church-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine killed in South Carolina church shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nine-killed-in-South-Carolina-church-shooting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4774\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nine-killed-in-South-Carolina-church-shooting.jpg\" alt=\"Nine killed in South Carolina church shooting\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Nine people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina late Wednesday, police said.<br \/>\nThe Charleston police department said shooting was a hate crime, AFP reported.<br \/>\nThe suspect was a clean-shaven white man, aged about 21. As of midnight (0400 GMT), he was still at large, police added.<br \/>\nLocal network ABC4 News earlier said police were also investigating a possible bomb threat.<br \/>\n\u201c(My family) and I are praying for the victims and families touched by tonight&#8217;s senseless tragedy at Emanuel AME Church,\u201d South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we\u2019ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt&#8217;s really bad. It&#8217;s a very bad scene,\u201d local pastor Thomas Dixon was quoted by CNN as saying.<br \/>\n\u201cApparently the person just entered the church and opened fire. That part has not been fully articulated on what happened yet &#8230; they are still looking for the suspect.\u201d<br \/>\nThe shooting happened at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. According to its website, it is the oldest such church in the U.S. south.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/nine-killed-in-south-carolina-church-shooting\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina late Wednesday, police said. The Charleston police department said shooting was a hate crime, AFP reported. The suspect was a clean-shaven white man, aged about 21. As of midnight (0400 GMT), he was still at large, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}