MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — A photo of a drawing by a 7-year-old Mount Pleasant, South Carolina girl of people gathered outside Emanuel AME Church as nine angels hover above is gaining a lot of attention on social media, our news partners at WCIV reported.
"Why is the world full of broken people?" Madeleine asked.
Melanie, the mother of two including young Madeleine, said while Madeleine asked a lot of questions about what happened Wednesday night, Madeleine's twin sister Emma Kate talked very little about it.
"Why can't the good people teach the bad people to be good?" Madeleine asked her mother. "Just because someone is different doesn't mean you have to do something bad to them."
During the conversation, Melanie says her daughter also asked to see a picture of the church where the shooting happened. Her mother gave Madeleine photos of the nine victims, WCIV reported.
"[Madeleine] wanted the angels to be a good representation," Melanie said.
Madeleine, armed with blank sheets of paper and crayons, looked on the faces of the people killed -- Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Sharonda Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Rev. Daniel Simmons, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Tywanza Sanders, and Myra Thompson -- and started to draw.
Melanie says her family is active in the community, adding that she and her husband try to teach their two children the importance of kindness.
The man accused of shooting the nine members of Emanuel AME, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, was arrested in North Carolina after a 12-hour multi-state manhunt. During a bond hearing Friday afternoon, bond was set at $1 million for a weapons charge and denied on the nine murder charges. He is being held in the Al Cannon Detention Center.
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