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Panthers owner donates $10,000 to family of each victim of the Charleston shooting

Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson dug into his deep checkbook to help out the families of the nine people who were killed by a gunman in Charleston, SC. earlier this week.

#PrayersforCharleston – some things are just bigger than football…@Panthers – thank you Mr. Richardson.. pic.twitter.com/sHxZGYjH4R

— Colin Cole (@ColinCole91) June 20, 2015

In the letter, which named each victim individually, Richardson also donated $10,000 to the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina—a place of prayer that was turned into slaughterhouse by a lone gunman intent on inflicting pain to so many innocent civilians.