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U.S. to investigate South Carolina church shooting as hate crime

Gunman kills 9 people at African-American church in South Carolina
Gunman kills 9 people at African-American church in South Carolina
The probe, which involves the department's Civil Rights Division, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Carolina, will be "parallel to and cooperative with the state's investigation," the department said in a statement.
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Federal authorities plan to investigate the shooting at Charleston, South Carolina church that left nine dead as a hate crime, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

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A white gunman killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city's police chief said on Thursday, describing the attack as a "hate crime".

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