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Events on Wednesday 17 June 2015 1
2015Charleston Church ShootingRacially motivated massacre at Emanuel AME ChurchA white supremacist gunman killed nine Black worshippers during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The attack prompted a national reckoning over Confederate symbols and racial violence. Shooter Dylann Roof was later convicted and sentenced to death.