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Obama will deliver a statement on the Charleston shooting

Brett LoGiuratoJun 18, 2015, 21:11 IST

President Barack Obama will deliver a statement from the White House at 11:45 a.m. on the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, the White House said Thursday.

Obama's statement comes the morning after a police said a gunman shot and killed nine people in a historically African-American church, Emanuel AME Church. The FBI has identified the suspect as 21-year-old Dylann Roof of Columbia, South Carolina. The FBI later confirmed that Roof had been apprehended and arrested.

Police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime.

This post will be updated when Obama speaks.