Before she moved to South Carolina in 2007, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton was a speech pathologist in metro Atlanta, working with students in DeKalb County Schools, friends said Thursday.
Coleman-Singleton, 45, was one of nine people fatally shot in Charleston, S.C. Wednesday night at the Emanuel AME Church in what police are calling a hate crime. She was a minister on staff at the historic church.
Friends told reporters Coleman-Singleton ran track in high school and college at South Carolina State, where she studied speech pathology. She also was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Jeff Dickerson, a spokesman for DeKalb County Schools, said Coleman-Singleton was a contract employee for the district, but could not pinpoint an exact time of her employment late Thursday. Online records indicate she worked in DeKalb County Schools for several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Coleman began working for Berkeley County Schools in South Carolina in 2007, after leaving Georgia. She was most recently at Goose Creek High School, in Goose Creek, where she worked as a speech pathologist and girls track and field coach.
Survivors include a husband, Chris, and three children.
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