The identities of the nine victims of Wednesday night's shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, have been released.
Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Cynthia Hurd, Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson, Ethel Lance, Rev. Daniel Simmons, Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor and Susie Jackson were shot and killed by a gunman around 9 p.m. Wednesday during a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Charleston county coroner, Rae Wooton, confirmed the victims' names at a 3 p.m. press conference. All suffered gunshots, she said.
"We will be continuing our investigation through many means, including autopsy," Wooton added. "While the autopsies are not expected to provide us any real, new information, it's important to the process."
