Pinckney

The divisive Confederate flag came down on July 10 at South Carolina's legislature, drawing a line under a furor rekindled last month by the murder of nine black churchgoers by a young white supremacist.

A white gunman killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on June 18, describing the attack as a "hate crime". 

The suspect, who police described as a 21-year-old white man wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and boots, was still at large hours after the shooting on June 17 evening. 

Nine people were confirmed dead after a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday. Police said several bodies were in the church that were now being identified. Among the dead was the state senator who was pastor of the church, Democrat Clementa Pinckney.