The names of five of the nine people killed during last night’s shooting in Charleston have been released. State Senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney and Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, a mother of three and a track coach, were identified this morning. Since then the names of three more victims have been released.
Ever since HBO’s very good investigative pornography show “The Jinx” exploded this past spring, viewers and critics have wondered how much creator Andrew Jarecki’s own digging influenced the active murder investigations in Los Angeles and Westchester, N.Y., into his subject, the sociopathic millionaire Robert Durst. A freedom of information request filed by Gawker suggests the two are intertwined.
Libertarian-esque wet dream Rand Paul is still considered a “serious” candidate for president, in part because people have not had time to fully digest his policy prescriptions. For example: today he proposed a massive tax cut for the rich!
At a press conference this afternoon, President Obama spoke about the shooting last night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston that left nine people dead. “There’s something particularly heartbreaking about death happening in a place where we seek solace and we seek peace, in a place of worship,” Obama said.
On Wednesday, the New York State Police released “progression photos” of prison escapees Richard Matt and David Sweat, showing what the fugitives might look like after ten days on the run. But police still don’t appear to have any idea where Matt and Sweat are hiding, and unless there is a break in the case, those pictures will soon need updating. To aid the manhunt, Gawker has produced a series of images showing what these dangerous fugitives may look like if they continue to evade capture.
A former high school classmate of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof tells the Daily Beast Roof was a prescription pill abuser who “made a lot of racist jokes.”
The uncle of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof says his nephew is a “monster” who was given a .45-caliber gun for his birthday this April.
Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old South Carolina man accused of killing nine people last night in a historic black Charleston church, was photographed wearing a jacket stitched with the Apartheid-era South African flag above the flag of the unrecognized, white supremacist African state of Rhodesia.
Sylvia Johnson, who is reportedly a cousin of the reverend killed during last night’s shooting in Charleston, told NBC News that one of the survivors told her the gunman reloaded fives times and told a victim, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”
The man suspected of killing nine people last night at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., sat with his victims for an hour before opening fire, authorities said this morning. The Post and Courier reports that the suspect, a white man in his early 20s, took part in a nighttime prayer meeting at the church.
Police have released several surveillance photographs of the man suspected of killing nine last night during a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The suspect, a white man in his early 20s, reportedly prayed in the church for an hour with several of the victims before the shooting. He remains at large.
