The search for the killer of nine people at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, continues. The police described it as a hate crime. At a prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, others were also wounded.<br /><br /> The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Emanuel AME), founded in 1816 in downtown Charleston, is the oldest of its kind in the southern US.<br /><br /> The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a Democrat member of the South Carolina State Senate, was identified among the dead. His sister was also reported killed.<br /><br /> State House of Representatives minority leader J. Todd Rutherford praised Pickney as “a man driven by public service.”<br /><br /> The suspect is thought to be a 21-year-old white male, described as ‘clean-shaven and slender, with sandy blond hair, wearing a gray sweatshirt or hoodie, jeans and Timberland boots’.<br /><br /> Police, federal agents, helicopters, dogs and roadblocks were all involved in the overnight search for the killer.<br /><br /> Information about the victims was not immediat
