On July 7 , 2015 , Middleton penned a column in The Players ' Tribune about the Charleston church shooting . He explained that the shooting affected him deeply because he grew up in Charleston and his grandmother Juanita knew four of the nine people who died . Middleton had met one of the victims , Cynthia Hurd , as she dropped her nephew off at a basketball camp not long before the shooting . " In Charleston , we 're staying strong , but the wounds are still deep , " he wrote
Charleston church shooting
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