The Charleston church shooting ( also known as the Charleston church massacre ) was a mass shooting Use_firearm in which Dylann Roof , a 21-year-old white supremacist , murdered Killing nine African Americans ( including the senior pastor , state senator Clementa C. Pinckney ) during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston , South Carolina , on the evening of June 17 , 2015 .

Page was an American white supremacist and Army veteran from Cudahy , Wisconsin .