A vigil for the victims of the deadly shooting at a Charleston church was evacuated on Thursday due to a bomb threat, according to news reports.
The vigil was being held at the Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston. Numerous lawmakers attended the vigil, including South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, and North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey.
BREAKING: @CharlestonPD dispatch says bomb threat called in at Morris Brown AME Church, site of vigil for #CharlestonShooting.#chsnews
— The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 18, 2015
State lawmaker tells me Morris Brown evacuated over bomb threat. Was where prayer vigils had just ended. Police pushing crowd east.
— Aaron Gould Sheinin (@asheinin) June 18, 2015
#BREAKING: Dispatch confirms @CharlestonPD responding to call of a bomb threat at Morris Brown AME Church. #chsnews #CharlestonShooting
— Melissa Egan (@Melissa_Live5) June 18, 2015
Police have cleared the street in front of Morris Brown. (Church is red brick with white roof). pic.twitter.com/iu77LYa2tw
— Aaron Gould Sheinin (@asheinin) June 18, 2015
Law enforcement quickly gave the all clear.
Bomb threat at 15 Morris Street is all clear.
— ChasCoSheriff (@ChasCoSheriff) June 18, 2015
Nine people were killed on Wednesday when a white man opened fire at a historic black church in Charleston. Police on Thursday arrested a suspect in the shooting, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof.
O look, the Klan’s figured out how the telephone works!
What kind of vile little f&ckwad phones in a bomb-threat at a time like this? Answer: the racist South Carolinian type.
I sure am glad that the shooter was just an isolated case from which we can draw no larger conclusions.
Yep. It is so good to know we live in a post-racial America…
Racist terrorism rears its ugly head again…