Charleston Bomb Site Area Cleared - Local Sheriff’s Office

The area where a bomb threat was called in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the site of the fatal mass shooting a day earlier, has been cleared, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Just minutes earlier on Thursday, local authorities said they were responding to a bomb threat at the site of the Charleston mass shooting, where citizens had gathered to take part in a vigil.

“Bomb threat at 15 Morris Street is all clear,” the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said via Twitter.

The threat came a day after a gunman shot and killed nine people at the AME Church in Charleston.

The US Department of Justice has launched a hate crime probe into the incident.