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9 killed in prayer meeting at oldest AME church in the South

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In the early hours Thursday morning, residents shaken to the core in Charleston, South Carolina, held hands and formed a circle of prayer down the street from what was another mass shooting in the U.S.

It has happened before in a kindergarten class, a college campus, a movie theater, a McDonald’s. The words resonate as places forever linked with the unspeakable: Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Luby’s.