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The Latest: Investigators describe scene at church shooting

FILE - In this June18, 2016 file photo, Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C. The trial for Roof, a white man accused of killing nine black people at the church, started Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, at the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
FILE - In this June18, 2016 file photo, Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C. The trial for Roof, a white man accused of killing nine black people at the church, started Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, at the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

By Associated Press 6 min read

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – The Latest on the death penalty trial of Dylann Roof charged with killing nine people during a Bible study in a Charleston church (all times local):

5:20 p.m.

Current and former Charleston police officers and a firefighter have described what they found when they responded to the scene of nine slayings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

They testified Wednesday as Dylann Roof’s death penalty trial got underway.

Roof, who is white, faces 33 counts including hate crimes in the June 2015 shootings of nine black parishioners at the church. Prosecutors say Roof targeted the historic church because he wanted to start a race war.