[Sooth2222]

The MSM can always be counted on to put two and two together and come up with 20 or with 0.

June 17, 2015 news report:

Three Jasper County election commissioners who were notified in May they were not being reappointed have been informed by state Sen. Clementa Pinckney that their removal was never a formal decision by the county’s legislative delegation. On May 26, delegation chairman Bill Herbkersman sent letters to Rev. Donald Sheftall, Patricia Walls and Lillian King stating that their services were no longer needed because of background checks by the governor’s office.

This is reported on Wednesday, and the politician quoted is shot on Thursday? Odd coincidence.

My $0.02 bet would be on internecine politics.

[silverleaf]

if it was a hit on the state senator someone knew where to find him and how to cloud the investigation by making his assassination look like an emotion-laden racial massacre

motive already imputed and reported as a hate crime

[Old Sarge]

Very good catch!

Nachum: a data point which might support the theory?