Monte Talmadge, a 63-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, drove nearly 300 miles (480 km) overnight from Raleigh, North Carolina, and sat in a camping chair across the street from the church.
Families of South Carolina church massacre victims offer forgiveness
Mourners arrived in Charleston from around the United States on Saturday to pay their respects to nine black churchgoers killed in an attack this week, with services planned throughout the day ahead of a rally in the state capital later in the evening.
Crowds began to gather at the Emanuel African Methodist Church, the site of Wednesday's killings in downtown Charleston, early on Saturday morning. At the memorial site in front of the church, the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, flowers were laid six feet deep in places.
Dylann Roof, 21, whom authorities say spent an hour in Bible study with parishioners at the nearly 200-year-old church before opening fire on them, was remanded in custody by Chief Magistrate James Gosnell at a hearing on Friday.
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