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.”
Family members of the victims killed during Wednesday’s shooting at Emanual AME church in Charleston confronted accused gunman Dylann Roof during his bond hearing this afternoon. “We have no room for hate,” one relative said. “So we have to forgive. I pray God has mercy on your soul.”
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:
Jon Stewart’s monologue tonight was an impassioned, frustrated meditation on the Charleston shooting and other recent tragedies. “I didn’t do my job today,” he said. “I’ve got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds, because of what happened in South Carolina.”
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.
While the U.S. and South Carolina state flags that fly above the South Carolina state house were lowered to half-mast today in mourning for the nine victims of last night’s shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, the Confederate flag on display outside the building is still flying high and proud. Why? Because the bizarre display of racist symbolism is so closely protected that it would be impossible to move it without a legislative vote.
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 of him since his arrest this morning.
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.
Photos posted to a Facebook page that appears to belong to South Carolina gunman Dylann Storm Roof show a young man posing in front of a black Hyundai Elantra with a front plate that reads “Confederate States of America” and displays three Confederate flags.
The names of five of the nine people killed during last night’s shooting in Charleston have been released. State Senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney and Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, a mother of three and a track coach, were identified this morning. Since then the names of three more victims have been released.
Cynthia Hurd, a library manager at St. Andrews Regional Library, has been identified as one of the victims from last night’s shooting in Charleston. All 16 public libraries in Charleston County will be closed today in her honor.
At a press conference this afternoon, President Obama spoke about the shooting last night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston that left nine people dead. “There’s something particularly heartbreaking about death happening in a place where we seek solace and we seek peace, in a place of worship,” Obama said.
Buzzfeed reports that Sharonda Coleman-Singleton was one of the nine people killed last night in the Charleston church shooting. Coleman-Singleton was a reverend, a track coach, and a mother of three.
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.
