9 Worshipers Killed in Opened Fire at Historic Church, S.C.

South Carolina - Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Historic Church in Charleston, South Carolina where people peacefully gathered together to pray shocked by a gunman who opened fire and killed nine people.

Police immediately close off the crime scene to the public.

Gov. Nikki Haley, one of who responded on the shooting incident said, "While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we'll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another," she said in a statement. 

According to the legislative leader, church's pastor Sen. Clementa Pinckney is one of those people who got killed.
After the incident, worshipers gathered together outside near the shooting site to offer prayers. Some are hugging each others and some are kneeling on the streets.

Many group of people arrive asking information and contacting their relatives about the incident.

According to the police investigation, they believe that the attacked is a hate crime and now searching for a young white guy/man who believed the suspect.