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Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle down the street from the Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015, following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.

Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of a shooting June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.

Surreace Cox, of North Charleston, S.C., holds a sign during a prayer vigil down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015, following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster gets emotional during a prayer, Thursday, June 18, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. State Sen. Clementa Pinckney was killed, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in a shooting at an historic black church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D-Kershaw) gets emtional as he sits next to the draped desk of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Thursday, June 18, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Pinckney was one of those killed, Wednesday night in a shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015, on the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prior to his departure to Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle down the street from the Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015, following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.

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