SPECIAL: ‘Remembering the Emanuel 9’

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Wednesday marks five years since nine lives were taken at Mother Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston.

The church became the scene of a horrific killing that happened at the end of a weekly Bible study.

Live 5 News honors the memory of the nine victims of the massacre in a special, “Remembering the Emanuel 9:"

• The Honorable Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41
• Cynthia Graham Hurd, 54
• Susie Jackson, 87
• Ethel Lance, 70
• Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49
• Tywanza Sanders, 26
• Rev. Daniel Simmons, 74
• Rev. Sharonda Singleton, 45
• Myra Thompson, 59