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FILE - Donald Lantz, left, speaks with his attorney John Balenovich as his wife Jeanne Whitefeather, right, leaves the courtroom in Kanawha County Circuit Court, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Charleston, W.Va. (Christopher Millette/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)

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FILE - Defendants Donald Lantz, left, and Jeanne Whitefeather enter Kanawha Circuit Court with Kanawha County Sheriff Deputy Matthew Dingess for the first day of their trial, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, in Charleston, W.Va. (Chris Dorst/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)

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Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden worships at Morris Brown AME Church, Sunday, July 7, 2019, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak with reporters outside a restaurant, Sunday, July 7, 2019, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

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Democratic presidential contender and former Vice President Joe Biden, right, hold hands with Tyrone Sanders, husband of Mother Emanuel shooting survivor Felicia Sanders, left, during a town hall on Sunday, July 7, 2019, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

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President Donald Trump points to supporters after speaking during a rally Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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President Trump enjoys an enthusiastic rally with those who support him, staged recently in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Associated Press)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this July 20, 2017, photo, Trey Kay, left, and Deanna McKinney, who is featured in the first podcast of a four-part series on Charleston's West Side that Kay is producing for his "Us & Them" podcast, in Charleston, W.Va. (Douglas Imbrogno/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

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Former senator and South Carolina governor Fritz Hollings joined by Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg, Gov. Henry McMaster,former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, U.S. Rep Jim Clyburn and Sen. Lindsey Graham at the ceremony to unveil the statue of Hollings in the garden of the J. Waties Waring Judicial Center Monday April 17, 2017 in Charleston.,S.C. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP)

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Nadine Lance Collier, Ethel Lance's daughter walks past Dylann Roof, seated at the defense table in the Charleston County Court Monday April 10, 2017 after she addressed the court during his guilty plea hearing on murder charges in Charleston,S.C. " I'm the one who forgave you in the bond hearing, and I still do" said Collier. The convicted Charleston church shooter, Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences in state prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder charges Monday, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool)

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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT.-This photo taken March 20, 2017, shows the Second Presbyterian Church in downtown Charleston, S.C. (Leroy Burnell/The Post And Courier via AP)

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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT.- This photo taken March 19, 2017, shows parishioners worshipping at Mount Zion AME Church in Charleston,S.C. (Leroy Burnell/The Post And Courier via AP)

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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. EDT.- This photo taken March 19, 2017, shows parishioners worshipping at Mount Zion AME Church in Charleston,S.C. (Leroy Burnell/The Post And Courier via AP)

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In this June 18, 2015, file photo, Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

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From left, SBA Administrator Linda McMahon, Vice President Mike Pence , Ronald Regan Foster, and Nancy Reagan Foster stand before a crowd on Saturday, March 25, 2017 in Charleston, W.Va. Pence traveled to Charleston to talk about jobs and small businesses in the wake of a stinging defeat for the Trump administration on health care. (Justin Rogers/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

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From left, SBA Administrator Linda McMahon, Vice President Mike Pence , Ronald Regan Foster, and Nancy Reagan Foster stand before a crowd on Saturday, March 25, 2017 in Charleston, W.Va. Pence traveled to Charleston to talk about jobs and small businesses in the wake of a stinging defeat for the Trump administration on health care. (Justin Rogers/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

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FILE - In this Friday, June 18, 2015 file photo, police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, in Charleston, S.C. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the United States. It lists more than 100, including the slaying of nine black churchgoers during a 2015 prayer meeting in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)