'It's like reopening a wound': Jacksonville shooting prompts anger, empathy from Buffalo to Charleston
Relatives and friends of those killed in racist attacks in Buffalo and Charleston say they are standing in support of the families who lost loved ones in Jacksonville. The moment Melvin Graham learned three Black people were fatally shot in a racially motivated rampage at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, he said his mind raced back to June 17, 2015. That was the day his sister and eight other congregants of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, were gunned down by a white supremacist during a Bible study. As he listened to news reports from Jacksonville describing the Aug. 26 massacre, Graham said his blood began to boil with anger that once again America was being rocked by a heinous hate crime like the one that claimed the life of his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd. "Here we go again. That was my reaction. It keeps happening over and over and over again," Graham told ABC News. "At the beginning, after my sister was ...