Nine killed by a white man in a hate crime in South Carolina church

In what is seen as a hate crime, a 20-year-old white man shot and killed 9 blacks in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The incident happened at around 9pm during a prayer meeting and the killer is absconding. There are three survivors.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 18 June 2015.

The Charleston Police Chief has waned that the gunman is "extremely dangerous" and both he and the Mayor believe it to be a hate crime.
From initial reports, the suspect is of small or slender build, wearing a gray sweatshirt with blue jeans and Timberland boots. He was clean shaven.
The church is a historic African-American church and it traces its roots to 1816, when several churches split from Charleston's Methodist Episcopal Church.
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