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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, April 23, 2015.
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.