Clementa Pinckney

publication date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 (part of Summer 2015)

category: Victims

clue: Charleston mourns this pastor and senator.

explanation: A mass shooting took Pinckney's life in June 2015, shortly before this goo was published. more…

difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Richard Slominsky, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, and Aaron Shurtleff

trivia: Scott didn't want to trivialize an unspeakably sad news event, but he couldn't ignore a topic on everyone's mind in June 2015. He also definitely didn't want to put the name or face of the shooter on his website, so he chose a tasteful representation of the most famous victim instead.

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