A statement from the Rt. Reverend Thomas C. Ely, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Vermont on the tragic shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina
6/18/2015 Dear people of the Episcopal Church in Vermont Once again, tragedy at the hands of gun violence has entered the life of our nation. A young white man, now identified as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, entered the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and shot and killed nine innocent people. As …