The family of accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof released a statement this afternoon. “We are devastated and saddened by what occurred,” the statement reads. “We offer our prayers and sympathy for all of those impacted by these events.”
The Charleston shooter’s uncle says he wishes he could “pull the switch himself” on his accused murderer nephew.
The New York Times has the most detailed eyewitness account yet from inside the Charleston shooting, where witnesses say Dylann Roof debated scripture with the prayer group before ultimately pulling out his gun.
Accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof has been charged with nine counts of murder and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. If convicted, he faces the death penalty.
Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof told police he “almost didn’t” kill nine people at Emanuel AME Church Wednesday night “because everyone was so nice” to him, according to a report in NBC News. Eventually, though, Roof decided he had to “go through with his mission.”
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is already calling for the death penalty in the Charleston church shooting case. She said this morning that if alleged shooter Dylann Roof is convicted, he should be put to death. Haley told The Today Show:
On Thursday night, newly published interviews with those who knew alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Roof provided disturbing details about the man accused of killing nine people in a racially motivated attack yesterday.
Thursday evening, Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof boarded a plane bound for South Carolina, where he is expected to face multiple murder charges for last night’s brutal slaying of nine people at Emanuel AME Church.
Witnesses say alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Roof spent as much as an hour inside the Emanuel AME Church before opening fire Wednesday night. Now, CNN reports, there’s video from inside the church, showing someone who looks like Roof sitting with the group moments before the massacre began.
Alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Roof was escorted from the Shelby, North Carolina, police station this afternoon. He’s since waived extradition and is expected to be returned to Charleston to face murder charges for allegedly killing nine people last night at Emanuel AME church. Below are the first videos and photos…
On June 17, a young, white male gunman opened fire inside a predominantly black Charleston church, killing at least nine people who had gathered inside for a prayer group. The man identified as the shooter—21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof—was apprehended 14 hours later in North Carolina. Here’s what we know so far.
The identity of last night’s South Carolina church shooter was revealed this morning, igniting a frenzy to find any trace of information about him on the web. A quick misread might lead you to the Facebook page of Dylan Roof, a young West Columbia man who did not murder nine people last night.
A former high school classmate of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof tells the Daily Beast Roof was a prescription pill abuser who “made a lot of racist jokes.”
Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of killing nine people in a Charleston, S.C. church last night, has reportedly been arrested in Shelby, North Carolina.
The uncle of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof says his nephew is a “monster” who was given a .45-caliber gun for his birthday this April.
Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old South Carolina man accused of killing nine people last night in a historic black Charleston church, was photographed wearing a jacket stitched with the Apartheid-era South African flag above the flag of the unrecognized, white supremacist African state of Rhodesia.
The Charleston shooting suspect has reportedly been identified as Dylann Storm Roof, a 21-year-old from Lexington County, S.C., currently out on bond in connection with recent arrests on drug and trespassing charges. (UPDATE: Roof has reportedly been arrested in North Carolina).
