Even the most level-headed adults would freeze if faced with a gun-wielding murderer.<\/p>\n
But a super smart five-year-old girl managed to survive the Charleston Church shooting by playing dead, suggests a local news station.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”X9T5h26i6rYrQ88G6A6EjinynbkQBlFe”]21-year-old Dylann Roof opened fire and killed nine people during a prayer session in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church \u2013 one of the oldest historically black churches in America.<\/p>\n
Roof\u2019s uncle Carson Cowels, 56, reported him after he recognised his nephew on the CCTV footage released by police.<\/p>\n
He said Roof\u00a0received a gun as a birthday present for his 21st\u00a0in April. A.45 calibre pistol. It\u2019s not yet known if it was the same gun used in the attack \u2013 which is being investigated as a hate crime.<\/p>\n
Relatives of the girl said to have survived the attack told ABC News 4 \u2013 a station based in Charleston \u2013 that the youngster had dodged the killer by keeping quiet and pretending to be dead.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s thought that she\u2019s recovering from the ordeal in the Medical University of South Carolina hospital.<\/p>\n
Journalist Rob Mallia, who was reporting from the scene tweeted: \u2018Family says 5 year old survived by playing dead. Child resting @MUSChealth @ABCNews4.\u2019<\/p>\n
A local newspaper suggests\u00a0he is currently on bail for drugs charges, while court records say he was charged with trespassing in April.<\/p>\n
The gunman apparently sat in a religious meeting for an hour before gunning down members of the congregation.<\/p>\n
Among the dead were six women and three men, including Reverend Clementa C Pinckney.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
Source: Metro UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Even the most level-headed adults would freeze if faced with a gun-wielding murderer. But a super smart five-year-old girl managed to survive the Charleston Church shooting by playing dead, suggests a local news station. [contextly_sidebar id=”X9T5h26i6rYrQ88G6A6EjinynbkQBlFe”]21-year-old Dylann Roof opened fire and killed nine people during a prayer session in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":126677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-126676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}