People in Waterbury are remembering the lives lost in South Carolina.
A special service took place at the Rehoboth Church on Saturday night.
The event was organized by the Concerned Black Clergy Council of Waterbury and the local NAACP chapter.
There was a prayer, fellowship and discussion.
Several area pastors spoke about the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina.
The Waterbury vigil was to show support for the families of the nine victims.
Religious leaders also delivered a message of hope.
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“Hate cannot stand. That love and light has a way of driving out darkness and that God is a good God even on a bad day,” Pastor Rodney D. Wade, of Long Hill Bible Church, said.
“We also want to build some solidarity here. We want to actually build more on the community and bring folk together and kind of dispel some anger because there’s a lot of people who are angry right now,” Rev. Lydell Brown, of Burning Bush Family Life Center, said.
There have been several prayer vigils in the state since the massacre on Wednesday.
