The 2015 Charleston Church Shooting - June 17 2020 - Daily True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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June 17th: Charleston Church Shooting (2015) Racial tension, while always present, has been at an all time high as of late. There have been tragic events that have sparked this rise in tension, one of which took place on this day in 2015. Today is the day that 9 African Americans tragically lost their lives at the hands of a racist man as they sat in the comfort of their history church. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away in Silver Lake section.
0:03.7	We have a weird.
0:05.7	A weird.
0:05.7	...rescribed by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.0	Morning.
0:09.7	Cuff of murder.
0:10.4	Racial tensions, while always present, has been at an all-time high as of late.
0:16.8	There have been tragic events that have sparked this rise in tension, one of which took place on this day in 2015.
0:24.6	Today is the day that nine African Americans tragically lost their lives at the hands of a racist man as they sat in the comfort of their historic church.
0:34.6	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and
0:39.0	search your day with a morning cup of murder. On the evening of June 17, 2015, the Charleston
0:49.0	Police Department in South Carolina began getting calls from a number of sources,
0:53.4	claiming that there was a shooting
0:55.2	at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
0:58.7	As they rushed to the scene, they were greeted with mass chaos.
1:02.5	While a group of parishioners gathered for an evening Bible study, a new face walked in through
1:07.3	the doors of the historic church.
1:09.9	In the predominantly African-American church
1:11.9	walked a young white man who sat down and attended the Bible study. The churchgoers, happy to have
1:18.4	a new soul there to learn about the Lord, thought nothing of his presence until the man began
1:23.5	disagreeing with the discussion of scripture. Then as the 12 other members of the Bible study
1:29.2	bowed their heads to pray, this man stood up, aimed a gun at 87-year-old Susie Jackson, and began
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