{"id":32347,"date":"2017-06-15T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T10:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=32347"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T10:11:25","slug":"cubs-draft-son-of-woman-killed-in-2015-church-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/mlb\/cubs-draft-son-of-woman-killed-in-2015-church-shooting.html","title":{"rendered":"Cubs draft son of woman killed in 2015 church shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Cubs draft son of woman killed in 2015 church shooting<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Cubs draft son of woman killed in 2015 church shooting:- The Chicago Cubs have drafted Chris Singleton, whose mother was among those killed two years ago during the shooting inside a South Carolina church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Singleton was selected Wednesday by the defending World Series champions with the final pick of the 19th round, No. 585 overall. He is a right-handed-hitting center fielder at Charleston Southern University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The outfielder&#8217;s mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, was one of nine people killed by Dylann Roof on June 17, 2015, during a Wednesday night Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, one of the South&#8217;s first African-American churches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Coleman-Singleton, who was 45, was a track coach at Goose Creek High School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">In a news release detailing the amateur draft, Major League Baseball says Chris Singleton was honored by the New York Yankees during the team&#8217;s annual HOPE Week in 2015, &#8220;following his courageous response to the tragic shooting inside a Charleston, South Carolina church that claimed the life of his mother.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2017\/06\/15\/cubs-draft-son-of-woman-killed-in-2015-church-shooting\/102875448\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/mlb\/cubs-draft-son-of-woman-killed-in-2015-church-shooting.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cubs draft son of woman killed in 2015 church shooting Cubs draft son of woman killed in 2015 church shooting:- The Chicago Cubs have drafted Chris Singleton, whose mother was among those killed two years ago during the shooting inside a South Carolina church. 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