Charleston Church Opens For Service For First Time Since Shooting

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall, wooden doors to the world Sunday, embracing strangers who walked in from the street or tuned in from home for the first worship service since a white gunman was accused of killing nine black church members.

It was that same hospitality that allowed the suspected gunman to be welcomed into a Bible study for about an hour before he allegedly stood up, made racially offensive remarks and opened fire in the church known as “Mother Emanuel” because it is one of the oldest black congregations in the South.

ABC’s Jim Ryan was in Charleston all weekend and wraps up the emotional weekend and the latest information turned up regarding the shooter, Dylann Roof.