According to huffpost, Flowers, candles and tears continue to pour into a crowded street near the church where nine black community members lost their lives in a racially motivated mass shooting last Wednesday.
As the mourning continues, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church plans to reopen its doors for Sunday's service.
Just outside the church, mourners have paid their respects for the past three days, hugging fellow visitors and singing songs of worship in honor of the dead, whom many in the crowd have begun to call "The Beautiful Nine."
Ethel Harrison, 65, was married in that church. Every family member of hers who has died had a funeral there. Now she'll be attending another one for her cousin, 87-year-old shooting victim Susie Jackson.
"It still hurts," Harrison told The Huffington Post. "They didn't deserve this. We are all family, whether we see each other every day or not -- we are a family here."
Harrison said she knew other members of the church who lost their lives, including 70-year-old Ethel Lance, who was an usher and "a very sweet lady."
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