CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's governor somberly held up programs from the funerals of the victims of the Charleston church shootings, saying Friday during a memorial service that the faith of those victims showed how to heal in the aftermath of still another mass shooting.
A white man, Dylann Roof, faces charges in both state and federal courts and prosecutors in each are seeking the death penalty.
Haley, who attended the funerals of all the victims, said she got to know the families of both those who were killed and the three survivors in the days and weeks following the shootings.
Haley recalled state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the Emanuel pastor who was slain as a gentle giant and a man who never talked about what he was against.
Haley said that in the wake of the shootings — after which many family members of the victims said they forgave Roof, the suspect charged in the deaths — the people of South Carolina didn't have protests, they had vigils.
