Hundreds of mourners paid their respects on Thursday to the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, who was among the nine people gunned down in a suspected racially motivated attack on the historic black church last week. Pinckney was shot to death when alleged gunman Dylann Roof opened fire at Bible study. "Here in Charleston, South Carolina, one man tried — and failed — to bring about turmoil and strife to divide the people," Mark Tillman, general president of the fraternity to which Pinckney belonged for more than 20 years, Alpha Phi Alpha, told mourners. But what he has done is brought us together." The 41-year-old married father of two also served in the South Carolina Senate.
