Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joseph P. Riley said that townspeople “are telling me they just can’t stop crying. … White people, black people, the heartache is indescribable” in the wake of the Wednesday mass shooting at an historically black church.

Riley compared the pain in his community to the “feeling people had when President Kennedy was assassinated.”

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