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Via Romenesko.
The Charleston Courier and Post slapped a gun range sale sticker over the banner headline about last night's shooting attack that killed nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the city. “The front-page sticky note that was attached to some home delivery newspapers on the same day as this tragedy is a deeply regrettable coincidence," the paper said in a statement after Jim Romenesko called. "We apologize to those who were offended.”
The gunman, who was white, sat in a prayer meeting at the church for about an hour before opening fire. Survivors said he reloaded multiple times and spoke of killing the African American church-goers because "you rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” Police are looking for 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof in the hate crime.
Cornell William Brooks, the president of the NAACP, said in a statement that “there is no greater coward than a criminal who enters a house of God and slaughters innocent people engaged in the study of scripture.”
