Horsham Responds To Charleston Tragedy

Horsham community leaders responded to the shooting tragedy in Charleston Wednesday night which left nine dead.

Police were on the hunt for a white male on Thursday who opened fire at a historic black church, killing six women and three men in what is being described as a hate crime.

The Horsham Chiefs Advisory Team, the local community policing initiative, posted their response to the incident on their Facebook page.

We don’t make a practice of commenting on police related incidents outside our general geography but today we are making an exception. We were very saddened to learn of the tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost loved ones and to the Community as a whole. Such senseless acts of violence can tear at the very fabric of a Community. But it is exactly at such times when we must stand together as one.

In the coming days we will learn much about the perpetrator of this horrific crime and his motives. In the end there can be no real understanding of evil. We are all left with the duty and responsibility of carrying on. As those of you who follow our page know, we end every morning update with the phase “we are all in this together.” We must never lose sight of this simple fact. And we must never allow acts of pure evil to pull us apart.

One of the individuals killed was a state senator, the New York Times reports.

Photo courtesy of Charleston-SC.gov