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Buffalo slayings hit close to home for former baseball player 900 miles away

Chris Singleton's mother was one of 9 killed at a church gathering in Charleston, S.C., 7 years ago. Singleton, now a public speaker, says he will travel to Buffalo to preach love and forgiveness.
Chris Singleton speaks to business leaders at the American Theater in Charleston about stopping hate-fueled violence. His mother was murdered in 2015 at Mother Emanuel Church. May 19, 2022

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former minor league baseball player Chris Singleton was scrolling through social media when he saw there had been another mass shooting at a grocery store, this time in Buffalo, N.Y. Typically, he'd look away. This kind of news can be tough, personally. But the details of the massacre were frighteningly familiar.

"I was up all night. My wife was next to me telling me to go to sleep,

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