Video: Body of Sen. Clementa Pinckney arrives at St. John A.M.E.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at St. John A.M.E. church in Ridgeland to pay their final respects as the the body of the late Sen. Clementa Pinckney arrived Thursday.

Rev. Pinckney was senior pastor at St. John’s from 2009 to 2010, where he also taught Sunday school.

Pinckney also was the pastor at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, and among nine people slain there during a June 17 Bible study session.