The Department of Justice announced it was opening a hate crime investigation. After committing the crime, the teenager continued his life normally and was arrested Thursday when a citizen identified his car in traffic and reported to the police at about 250 miles north of Charleston. “This is an extremely dangerous individual,” Charleston police Chief Greg Mullen said to the media. “We do know that we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wrote in a statement. State Sen. Marlon Kimpson, remembering the Rev. Clementa Pinckney called him the “moral conscience of the General Assembly.”
