{"id":50359,"date":"2015-06-18T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/please_pray-horrific_charleston_sc_shooting_incident_kills_9_at_ame_church\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:11:49","slug":"please_pray-horrific_charleston_sc_shooting_incident_kills_9_at_ame_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50359","title":{"rendered":"Please Pray&#8211;Horrific Charleston SC Shooting Incident kills 9 at AME Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Chief Mullen said &quot;this is the worst night of my career.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dWxakaPTgA\">http:\/\/t.co\/dWxakaPTgA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlestonShooting?src=hash\">#CharlestonShooting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chsnews?src=hash\">#chsnews<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ergxY4MPDq\">pic.twitter.com\/ergxY4MPDq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WCBD (@WCBD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCBD\/status\/611460547452780545\">June 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nA white gunman killed nine people during a prayer meeting at one of Charleston\u2019s oldest and best-known black churches Wednesday night in one of the worst mass shootings in South Carolina history.<\/p>\n<p> Heavily armed law enforcement officers scoured the area into the morning for the man responsible for the carnage inside Emanuel AME Church at 110 Calhoun St. At least one person was said to have survived the rampage.<\/p>\n<p>Police revealed no motive for the 9 p.m. attack, which was reportedly carried out by a young white man. Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said, \u201cI do believe this was a hate crime.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Joe Riley called the shooting \u201ca most unspeakable and heartbreaking tragedy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150618\/PC16\/150619404\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: the best way to try to keep up with this story is to follow the Twitter Hashtag #charlestonshooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Chief Mullen said &quot;this is the worst night of my career.&quot; http:\/\/t.co\/dWxakaPTgA #CharlestonShooting #chsnews pic.twitter.com\/ergxY4MPDq &mdash; WCBD (@WCBD) June 18, 2015 A white gunman killed nine people during a prayer meeting at one of Charleston\u2019s oldest and best-known black<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50359\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,54,615,114,184,578,151,188,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-city-government","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-spiritualityprayer","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}