Hundreds of people waited several hours on Wednesday to pay their respects to South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor who was killed last week along with eight other people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
As his casket was brought into the Statehouse, the crowd sang, "We Shall Overcome." Pinckney, who served for nearly two decades in the state senate, is in the rotunda, flanked by honor guard members, his fellow senators, his wife, and family. One mourner, Ann Shephard, 65, of Columbia, said "a cloud has been over" her since the shooting. "I look at it from every angle, and it doesn't make sense to me."
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