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ByJeffreyCollinsand Russ Bynum The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. Awhite man who joined a prayer meeting inside a historic black church and then fa- tally shot nine people was captured without resistance Thursday after an all-night manhunt, Charleston's po- lice chief said. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, spent nearly an hour in- side the church Wednes- day night before killing six women and three men, in- cluding the pastor, Chief Greg Mullen said. A citizen spotted his car in Shelby, North Carolina, nearly four hours away. The chief wouldn't discuss a motive. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. called it "pure, pure concentrated evil." Stunned community leaders and politicians con- demned the attack on The Emanuel African Method- ist Episcopal Church, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the Justice De- partment has begun a hate crime investigation. President Barack Obama, who personally knew the slain pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, said these shootings have to stop. "At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries," Obama said. Pinckney, 41, was a mar- ried father of two who spent 19 years in the South Caro- lina legislature. He became the youngest member of the House when he was first elected as a Democrat at 23. "He had a core not many of us have," said Sen. Vin- cent Sheheen, who sat be- side Pinckney in the Senate. "I think of the irony that the most gentle of the 46 of us — the best of the 46 of us in this chamber — is the one who lost his life." The other victims were identified as Cynthia Hurd, 54; Tywanza Sanders, 26; Sharonda Singleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; Susie Jackson, 87; the Rev. Daniel Sim- mons Sr., 74; and DePayne Doctor. When the first report of fatalities reached Charles- ton County Coroner Rae Wooten, "Immediately, my heart started to sink, be- cause I knew that this was going to mean a forever im- pact on many, many peo- ple," she said. Sanders had recently graduated from Allen Uni- versity. Hurd worked for Charleston County's li- brary system for 31 years. Doctor was an enrollment counselor at Southern Wes- leyan University's Charles- ton Campus, according to a friend. Wooten said autopsies would be conducted over the next several days and did not have specific infor- mation on how many times the victims were shot or the locations of their injuries. Roof's childhood friend, Joey Meek, alerted the FBI after recognizing him in a surveillance camera im- age, said Meek's mother, Kimberly Konzny. Roof had worn the same sweat- shirt while playing Xbox videogames in their home recently. "I don't know what was going through his head," Konzny said. "He was a re- ally sweet kid. He was quiet. He only had a few friends." Charleston authorities put out photos of the suspect from the church's surveil- lance camera early Thurs- day. Later that morning, au- thorities west of Charlotte, North Carolina, got a report of a sighting of the suspect's car headed west, said Jeff Ledford, the police chief in Shelby, North Carolina. Of- ficers pulled over the driver and arrested Roof just be- fore 11 a.m., about 14 hours after the attack. A gun was found in the car, Mullen said. Roof had been to jail be- fore: State court records show a pending felony drug case and a past misde- meanor trespassing charge. He also displayed the flags of defeated white- ruled regimes: a Confeder- ate flag was on his license plate, Konzny said, and a photo on his Facebook page shows him wearing a jacket with stitched-on flag patches from Rhode- sia, which is now black-led Zimbabwe, and apartheid- era South Africa. SOUTH CAROLINA Wh it e gu nm an c au gh t in killing of 9 in black church GRACEBEAHM—THEPOSTANDCOURIERVIAAP From le , Reverend Richard Harkness holds hands with Reverend Jack Lewin during a prayer vigil held at Morris Brown AME Church for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church on Thursday in Charleston, S.C. CHUCK BURTON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof sits inside a police car as he is escorted from the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., on Thursday. By David Espo and Charles Babington The Associated Press WASHINGTON Working closely with the White House, the Republican- controlled House revived President Barack Obama's trade agenda on Thurs- day, voting to strengthen his hand in global negotia- tions and clearing the way for a showdown in the Sen- ate. The 218-208 vote marked the first step in a bipartisan rescue opera- tion mounted in the week since labor-backed Demo- crats in the House rebelled against the president and derailed the legislation he seeks. Additionally, a companion bill to provide federal aid for workers harmed by imports awaits action in both houses in the coming days. "Ninety-five percent of the world's consum- ers don't live in America, they live in other coun- tries," said Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Republican point man in the effort to push bipartisan trade bills across the finish line. "And if we want to make more things here and sell them there then we need to tear down those trade barriers that make them more ex- pensive." Democrats fought the legislation, as they have for months, for fear it would lead to the loss of U.S. jobs overseas. "Let's kill this donkey once and for all," said Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md. The administration's immediate negotiating ob- jective is a round of talks involving 12 countries in Asia, North America and South America. The vote was close but not suspenseful to give Obama the ability to ap- prove trade deals that Con- gress can accept or reject without changing. A to- tal of 28 Democrats sup- ported the legislation, the same number as on an ini- tial vote last week. Other recent presidents have had the same prerogative Obama seeks, known as "fast-track." Even so, obstacles re- main to completion of a plan that Obama, Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc- Connell hope will send two bills to the White House by the end of next week. Obama has said repeat- edly he wants both bills, but his spokesman refused several times to say what the president would do if the trade bill passes and the aid measure is blocked, as House Democrats have indicated they hope to do. "The president feels very strongly that any strategy that he supports would require both" measures reach his desk, said the spokesman, Eric Schultz. Thenexttestcomesinthe Senate, where support of a dozen or so pro-trade Dem- ocratswillberequiredtoap- prove the stand-alone mea- sure to enhance Obama's negotiating authority with- outknowingforcertainthat the aid for displaced work- ers will also make it to the president's desk. A combined trade-aid bill passed earlier on a vote of 62-37, two more than the 60 needed. One Republican, Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, missed the vote and is a possible supporter. A total of 14 Democrats supported the measure last month and the White House is lobbying to pre- vent slippage. Next, first the Senate, then the House, must pass the aid package itself. Nor- mally, that measure would be assured of gaining over- whelming Democratic sup- port. But in this case, op- ponents of the trade mea- sure have targeted it for defeat in hopes of killing the entire package. PACIFIC PACT Ho us e re vi ve s Ob am a' s agenda on global trade By Hope Yen The Associated Press WASHINGTON Ending years of wait, the govern- ment agreed Thursday to provide disability bene- fits to as many as 2,100 Air Force reservists and ac- tive-duty forces exposed to Agent Orange residue on airplanes used in the Viet- nam War. The new federal rule, ap- proved by the White House Office of Management and Budget, takes effect Friday. It adds to an Agent Or- ange-related caseload that already makes up 1 out of 6 disability checks issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The expected cost over 10 years is $47.5 million, with separate health care cover- age adding to the price tag. "Opening up eligibility for this deserving group of Air Force veterans and re- servists is the right thing to do," VA Secretary Bob Mc- Donald said in a statement. His office held a series of private meetings with vet- erans' organizations and lawmakers Thursday to dis- cuss ways to expedite the delivery of benefits, includ- ing to surviving spouses. The new federal rule covers an expanded group of military personnel who flew or worked on Fair- child C-123 aircraft in the U.S. from 1969 to 1986 and were believed to have been exposed to Agent Orange residue. The planes had been used to spray millions of gallons of the chemical herbicide during the Viet- nam War. "It's great news," said re- tired Tech. Sgt. Ed Kienle, 73, of Wilmington, Ohio, who worked on a C-123 plane as a flight mechanic from 1972 to 1980. Kienle, who developed skin cancer, respiratory problems and has indica- tions of prostate cancer, said he was already lining up the paperwork to receive compensation, having pre- viously been turned down by the VA. He is among re- servists in the "Buckeye Wing" stationed in Ohio who pushed for C-123 ben- efits. "I'm going to be calling up all the guys this evening to celebrate," Kienle said. It is the first time the VA has established a special category of Agent Orange exposure for troops who weren't on the ground or didn't serve on inland wa- terways in Vietnam. Still, citing weaker scientific ev- idence, the VA said it will not cover roughly 200,000 "Blue Water" veterans who say they were exposed to Agent Orange while serv- ing aboard deep-water na- val vessels off Vietnam's coast. An Institute of Medi- cine study released in Jan- uary concluded that some C-123 reservists stationed in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts had been exposed to Agent Orange residues in the planes and suffered higher risks of health problems as a re- sult. Undertaking a review of military records, the VA said it subsequently deter- mined that pilots, mechan- ics and medical personnel who served at seven other locations in the U.S. and abroad also were poten- tially affected — Florida, Virginia, and Arizona, as well as Taiwan, Panama, South Korea and the Phil- ippines. Those affected individu- als under the new rule will now be eligible to receive disability aid including survivor benefits and med- ical care. The veterans must show they worked on a con- taminated plane and later developed any of 14 medical conditions such as prostate cancer, diabetes and leuke- mia that the VA has deter- mined to be connected to Agent Orange. VETERANS US to pay millions over Agent Orange Smog Check (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. starting at $ 29 95 + $ 8 25 certificate SERVICESATLOWERPRICES All makes and models. 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