Charleston Families Offer Forgiveness at Bail Hearing

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – The husband of one of the women shot and killed at a historic black church in Charleston says he forgives the man accused of slaying her and eight others.

Anthony Thompson said during a court hearing Friday for the suspect, Dylann Roof, that he and his family forgive him. He asked the 21-year-old Roof to repent and confess, and to give his life to Christ. He says “do that and you’ll be better off than you are right now.”

The sister of another of the women killed said she is “very angry,” but that her sister taught her that “we are the family that love built.”