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Shooting Victim’s Sister to VOA: Never Thought This Could Happen

The sister of Myra Thompson, one of the nine people killed in Wednesday’s shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, says she cannot believe what happened. “Never, never in a million years,” Marlene Coakley Jenkins told VOA in Charleston Friday. “Our message to our community is we appreciate all the love and support; but, truly speaking, we didn’t expect any less because here we are like the climate; we are warm and we’re loving,” she went on to say. She said...

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