In Charleston, A City Gathers To Mourn, Try To Understand Mass Shooting [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/19/1512:00 PM

Just hours after police apprehended 21-year-old Dylann Roof in Shelby, N.C., authorities flew him back to Charleston, S.C., a city that was still trying to comprehend the crime Roof is accused of committing.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that many residents stopped outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday. They laid flowers at the foot of the grand Gothic Revival church originally built in 1891.

[For more of this story, written by Eyder Peralta, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/th...rstand-mass-shooting]

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Robert OlcottMember

This is certainly a compassionate and empathic community response, to the recent tragedy there. It also seems to be not only a "Critical Incident Debriefing", but a noteworthy "Community [Re-] Building endeavor", after such a horrific incident.

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