On June 17, 2015, nine people were killed during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, when a person who’d joined the group opened fire with a Glock 41 .45-caliber handgun. Killed were:
• Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (45 years old)
• Depayne Middleton-Doctor (49)
• Cynthia Hurd (54)
• Susie Jackson (87)
• Ethel Lance (70)
• senior pastor and state senator Clementa Carlos Pinckney (41)
• Tywanza Sanders (26)
• Daniel Lee Simmons Sr. (74)
• Myra Thompson (59)
Five others survived the shooting and were left unharmed. According to reports, the perpetrator, a white man, spared the life of one person so she could tell everyone what had happened. He then turned his gun on himself but found he was out of bullets. He fled the scene and was arrested in a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, the following day. It was determined that he identified with white supremacist groups and ideologies. All of his victims were African Americans.