Nation IN BRIEF : SOUTH CAROLINA : Father of Victim Urges Racial Calm

The father of a woman raped and murdered--possibly because she was white--has called for racial calm after the arrests of seven black suspects in Charleston, S.C. “Revenge is no way to solve a problem,” Clair McLauchlin said. “We don’t want anything else horrible to happen.” Missy McLauchlin, 25, was crossing the street to a grocery store when she was picked up by several men. She was taken to a mobile home where she was assaulted, then put in a car, shot five times in the head and once in the arm and dumped on a highway, police said. One suspect reportedly told police that McLauchlin was attacked because of “400 years of oppression” since blacks were brought to this country as slaves.