Is for all of us in this community and our country to begin the necessary process of our healing together. When you think about the preparation now that these families have to make. Who steps back in the church, when, how. The attack happened inside the emanuel african methodist episcopal church. Known to many as simply mother emanuel. Its one of the oldest and largest black congregations in the country. Dr. Martin luther king jr. Even spoke there. Dylann roof is now in custody. He made no effort to conceal himself after the attack. He told survivors to tell his story so everyone would know what he did. The victims include reverend Clementa PinckneyTywanza Sanders and cynthia hurd. The charleston coroner is about to release additional victim names. We will take you there live when that happened. Craig melvin is in charleston. Craig, such an emotional day. Its tough to really put into words at this point. It hits close to you as well. The only positive news today is that the suspect was caught. How did police track him down . Reporter thats an excellent question. Were still learning more information about that. We do know that the 21yearold was taken into custody in shelby North Carolina. Shelby its about four hours north of where we are right now in charleston. Its a city that sits east of charleston. Law enforcement Officials Say officers noticed something suspicious about the car. He was driving a hyundai. They pulled him over and took him into custody without incident. Im told that he is in the process of being brought back here. I can also tell you that this is a 21yearold that doesnt just have a criminal record, but has a recent criminal record. There was a drug charge earlier this year also a trespassing charge from earlier this year as well. Thats about all we know about the suspect at this point. As you indicated, this is a communicate that is very much in mourning. Heres the thing about the mourning happening in charleston. This is a city that has been in mourning for several months now. This of course the same city sent reeling after the walter scott murder case. That shooting not 4 miles from where i understand right now. But it has been good to see so many vigils so many Prayer Services being held, not just here in charleston, but all over the state as well. Craig melvin in charleston for us. Well be back with you throughout the show. Lets head now to dave wagner, also in charleston. Walk us through what happened last night that ultimately led to such a tragic ending. Reporter well, it started i apologize for my voice. It started around an hour, maybe 8 00 or so, an hour before the actual shootings when the suspect, according to police, went to the church asked to speak to the Senior Pastor there, and then sat down with the bible study group. So he sat with them for an hour. And then an hour later, ended uptaking their lives. He shot eight people. An additional person taken to the hospital. That person died as well. I did obtain a picture, we interviewed just a short while ago, a man named malcolm graham. Malcolm is a former North Carolina state senator. He lost his sister in the shootings here. I want to show you a picture of her to get a sense of what a vibrant woman she was. Her name was cynthia hurd. She was a librarian here in charleston. She also worked for the Charleston Housing authority. When theyre mother died she became kind of the maternal person in the family. They really looked up to her. She was the mother hen of a group of boys. I think its important as we take a look at the picture of the suspect to know the human toll that he took nine really vibrant people nine people who were really important to their families and very important to this community as well. You mentioned the pastor of the church the Senior Pastor who was not only a prominent member of this community, he was a prominent member of the state senate. Passed important lenlgislations. People here miss him tremendously. Just been less than 24 hours. Its just so heartbreaking. Its been a long 12 hours. Thank you for being with us. Lets bring in retired chief lenny depaul as well as former fbi profiler. Thank you both for being with us. Lenny, ill start with you, the suspect was caught 200 plus miles away. And wasnt surprised when he was or i guess didnt put up a fight at that point. Does that suggest that he wanted to get caught . Certainly sends that type of message to Law Enforcement. I know they did a great job with video they got and photos and getting that out to the community, to the public. They certainly enhanced that license plate so they were able to do a bolo be on the lookout for the vehicle. They saw a suspicious car, pulled it over. I dont know if he wanted to get caught but he certainly didnt have a good plan to escape or try to stay out there. Yeah. Clint, one of the most chilling details here is that this killer sat among the congregation for an hour and got to see them there worshipping, studying scripture before he opened fire ultimately murdering nine of them. What does that tell you about the mind of this person . Yeah, you know this is a different type of killer in some ways. I mean, weve all in this country, weve been through Virginia Tech sandy hook the a error ra colorado movie theater, weve been through the d. C. Navy yard shooting. As the president who has chuck todd today has had to tell the nation over a dozen times about a mass shooting. You know one more time weve had the hearts of thousands of millions of americans broken by the actions of one. And this one, he as you say, he went in and he sat down with these dozen or so people. He sat next to the pastor. He listened to these people go through the bible. They poured out their hearts one might imagine. He listened to the pastor a wonderful, bright articulate man lead that study. And still, there was something in him, this terrible man on a mission. Were told he reloaded five different times. So he came prepared to carry out this terrible act. And he got to know his victims and he still killed them one at a time. Just like slaying of the lambs. Clint, hes reported to have said on the scene that he had to do this because, quote, you rain our women and youre taking over our country. In that i hear sort of two classic hallmarks of racist thinking that white women must be protected from the black savages and that we must protect white people in general from black people trying to dominate the country. And yet you look at his victims, the majority of his victims were women. Where does that play into into that philosophy. You know this this is that same type of hate philosophy we hear from different groups around the country. We know, for example, South Carolina has more than its share of groups that have been identified as hate groups or racially oriented groups one way or the other. But this individual is only 21 years old. When you look at you and me were a product of her redty and environment. So you have to say, how did that play into this individual . And in those 21 short years, how did he develop such a hatred that he would go into a room full of human beings and attempt to kill every one of them. Yeah. And that point goes to the motivations of the individual when lenny, you know from a Law EnforcementPerspective Matters a great deal, both to tracking them down and also to what the crime itself is. We know its a terrible homicide but in addition you heard us play in the beginning of the broadcast the attorney general talk about it as a hate crime. Of course the police chief down there has said that as well. One problem is, if theyre going to prosecute this at a local level, South Carolina is only one of five states in the country that doesnt have a law against state crimes. Absolutely. This i dont want to say kid hes 21 years old, hes on bail from some narcotics violation. He gets a. 45 caliber gun for his birthday. Thats folks at home that maybe should have thought twice. From my perspective, we see a crime, we see nine People Killed and we want to get that person in custody sooner than later. Thanks for being with us. The charleston coroner is now speaking. Lets listen to that. Theres obviously been a lot of Media Coverage and im sure youre all aware that this terrible incident occurred at Emanuel Ame Church down on calhoun street yesterday even as a group of parishioners gathered there for a bible study. The suspect entered the group and was accepted by them as they believed he wanted to join them in this bible study. After joining them for some period of time he obviously became very aggressive and violent and it resulted in the deaths of these nine individuals. I know much has been said about a number of them and many of you may know some of them. May know all of them. Others you may not be aware of. So this i want to take this opportunity to formally release the names of these individuals. And i appreciate again your support. I appreciate the support of the employees behind me who worked with a couple of these individuals actually were or had been county employees. I appreciate our administrator joining us and chairman of council. We join we all join in the sadness reflected in the community and these families. These names are being released in no specific order. But i will just go through them and the first name is cynthia hurd. She was a 54yearold lady who was currently employed in Charleston County as the Branch Manager for st. Andrews regional library. And obviously were all shattered by that and shell be missed deeply. The next individual is Susie Jackson, 87 years of anyone. Another individual e them lance, 70 years of age. Reverend depane middleton, 49 years of age. And he retired from Charleston County in 2005 where she was a director of the Community Development block grant program. The next individual is honorable reverend leClementa Pinckney. The next individual is Tywanza Sanders, 26 years of age. The next is reverend Daniel Simmons senior 74 years of age. He did not die at the church but was transported to the hospital where he later died in the operating room. The next individual is reverend sharonda singleton, 45 years of age. And the last name is myra thompson, 59 years of age. Obviously, youve been following the investigation. Im sure youre aware that the suspect has been arrested and charged. And of course the judicial system will move through the normal processes from here forward. In terms of my end of the investigation, we will be continuing our investigation through many means to include autopsy. Each one of the individuals will undergo an autopsy which is important in cases such as this particularly when were talking about criminal cases. And while those autopsies are not expected to provide us any real new information, its important to the process. It is based on our immediate observation and the report of what happened it is obvious that these individuals all suffered gunshot wounds and as a result those individuals died. I do not have at this time any ideas about how the Memorial Services and plans by the families will go. As you can imagine, they are still very much in shock and deep grief over these losses. Ive spent a great deal of time with them throughout the night as well as my staff. And i have to tell you theyre the most gracious group of grieving individuals ive had, i hate to say the pleasure to serve, but its been a pleasure to deal with such strong wonderful people in the face of such a tragedy. For each it is customary following autopsy each individual family will choose a funeral home or whatever their wishes are and they will make the arrangements for their loved one per their familys decisions. At this time i have no information for any plans for anything other thatten that. That may be forthcoming but im not knowledgeable about that at this time. Are there any simple questions i can answer . And i say simple because the investigation is very complex. It involves many many agencies. Not only does it involve City Police DepartmentSheriffs Office of course has been a supporting agency there. But very large portion of the investigation is being conducted by s. L. E. D. And fbis been present since last night and when i left them to come here all of those entities were still very much involved in the investigation. Is there any initial way [ inaudible question ] actually theres very little to add other than what i have said. Its obvious from the initial investigation that the gunman opened fire and all of these individuals suffered wounds that resulted in their deaths. Im not able it would be inappropriate at this time to get into more detail about the investigation. As that proceeds and as its deemed appropriate to the process, that information, those details will be made available as we Work Together as a team meaning Charleston City Police s. L. E. D. And my office. Yes, maam . [ inaudible question ] at this point that would be a premature conjecture on my part and it would not be appropriate either to try to speculate about Something Like that. [ inaudible question ] i think its fair to say that thats true. I really honestly at this time could not tell you who or how many. But i think its fair to say that that is certainly the case at least for some. Any other questions [ inaudible question ] at this time we would be very premature to discuss such detail. But i understand that people certainly interested. This being involving so many individuals, its quite complicated to go through the process in a way to deal with each one very individually and not impact the overall process. I do ask that you be patient and help those that you know and who are sharing in this grief to understand that this process is going to be fairly lengthy. Even for my side. We typically were typically perhaps deal with one case or maybe even two. In a case such as this with not only the numbers but thel not be usual in the sense that we will not it would be unfair to say to you that you should expect that all these individuals will be released to a funeral home by tomorrow because we cant do the process justice and do it correctly. Cutting corners or getting in a hurry. Its going to take time just like processing the scene throughout the night has taken a lot of time. The next processes are going to be lengthy too. I ask that you bear with us. Its in no way because were dragging our feet. But rather that we want to be so very particular and anticipate any potential problems that could arise from from ever getting in a hurry or misstepping. Weve been listening to the coroner for charleston and discussing the cause of the deaths there. We want to turn to North Carolina where i believe we have an ongoing press conference where the suspect was arrested and detain the. Lets listen into that. All the agencies involved in this investigation here on site to work through the process of getting mr. Roof back to South Carolina. I would like to add that this has been a great representation of what teamwork can accomplish. Through the cooperation of Law Enforcement, the community, and the media, this suspect was apprehended. We do appreciate the cooperations of our Law Enforcement partners especially the community for calling information in as they seen it. Our local District Attorneys Office as well as the u. S. Attorneys office. At this time, ill turn you over to special agent in charge john strong. Good afternoon. My name is john strong im the special agent in charge of the federal bureau of investigation in North Carolina. Fist id like to start off by thanking the chief and his staff with the shelby Police Department and for their fine efforts and investigative work which captured this suspect this morning, eliminating a threat to the community as well as saving the government tens of thousands of dollars it would have taken to track this individual down if they had not done so. Id also like to thank the local Prosecutors Office here and the u. S. Attorneys office who has worked with us on this matter. The fbi has initiated an investigation into this matter which we are working jointly with state and local partners to determine if a federal hate crime has been committed. I know that you have lots of questions today that i will not be able to answer because it is onion going investigation. The most important point is this subject is now in custody. The immediate threat to the community no longer exists. And well let the Legal Process run its course. There are no longer any lives at risk. Any other any other information on this investigation will come from the Law Enforcement authorities who work in charleston South Carolina. Thank you. Chief, is he still here . We have been listening there live to a press conference in North Carolina where the suspect in this Charleston Shooting was captured and detained. We heard police there talk about that Ongoing Investigation which includes federal authorities. We want to turn now back to charleston where craig melvin and Thomas Roberts have been reporting for us throughout the day. Craig, i know you grew up in this community. We just hear