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He had been recognized by an off-duty police officer who investigated his March 2 questioning; the officer then called a colleague to investigate. A police officer conducted a search of his vehicle and found a forearm grip for an AR semiautomatic rifle and six unloaded magazines , all capable of holding 40 rounds.

When asked about it, Roof informed the officer that he wanted to purchase an AR, but did not have enough money to do so. He was not charged, as it was not illegal in South Carolina to possess a firearm grip. On April 26, , Roof was arrested again for trespassing on the Columbiana Centre mall's grounds in violation of the ban. The ban was then extended for three additional years. According to James Comey , speaking in July , Roof's March arrest was at first written as a felony , which would have required an inquiry into the charge during a firearms background examination.

It was legally a misdemeanor charge and was incorrectly written as a felony at first due to a data entry error made by a jail clerk. Despite this, Roof would not have been able to legally purchase firearms under a law that barred "unlawful user[s] of or addicted to any controlled substance ," such as the Suboxone, from owning firearms. During a routine Bible study at the church, a white man about 21 years old, later identified as Roof, opened fire with a handgun, killing nine people.

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According to a childhood friend, Roof went on a rant about the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the Baltimore protests that were sparked by the death of Freddie Gray while Gray was in police custody. One image from his Facebook page showed him wearing a jacket decorated with two obsolete flags used as emblems among American white supremacist movements, those of Rhodesia present-day Zimbabwe and apartheid-era South Africa. One of the friends who briefly hid Roof's gun away from him said, "I don't think the church was his primary target because he told us he was going for the school.

But I think he couldn't get into the school because of the security On the day he was captured June 18, , Roof confessed to committing the Charleston attack with the intention of starting a race war , [45] and reportedly told investigators he almost did not go through with his mission because members of the church study group had been so nice to him. Federal prosecutors said in August that Roof was "self-radicalized" online, instead of adopting his white supremacist ideology "through his personal associations or experiences with white supremacist groups or individuals or others".

On June 20, , a website that had been registered to a "Dylann Roof" on February 9, , lastrhodesian.

The website also contained an unsigned, 2,word manifesto apparently authored by Roof, [53] in which he outlined his opinions, all methodically broken into the following sections: I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads , no real KKK , no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.

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The manifesto states that its author was "truly awakened" by coverage of the shooting of Trayvon Martin:. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words "black on white crime" into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong.

How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on white murders got ignored? The manifesto also mentioned as another source of influence the Northwest Front, a Seattle -based white supremacist organization infamous for its participation in the Greensboro massacre. According to web server logs, Roof's website was last modified at 4: According to court documents filed in August , Roof drafted two other manifestos, one in and the other in jail, recovered from his vehicle and jail cell respectively. He also made a list of churches and a "selection of victims", along with other writings.

Roof personally purchased the gun used in the shooting from a retail gun store in West Columbia, [60] using money given to him on his birthday. One week prior to the shooting, two of his friends tried to hide the gun after Roof claimed he was going to kill people. They returned it to him after the girlfriend of one of the friends, in whose trailer they hid the gun, pointed out he was on probation and needed to have the gun out of his possession.

FBI analysis of Roof's seized cellphone and computer found that he was in online communication with other white supremacists, according to unnamed officials. Although Roof's contacts did not appear to have encouraged the massacre, [62] the investigation was said to have widened to also include other persons of interest. Although the Council of Conservative Citizens took down its website on June 20 in the immediate wake of negative publicity, [51] its president, Earl Holt, stated that the organization was "hardly responsible" for Roof's actions. Through analysis of his manifesto, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged that Roof was a reader and commenter on The Daily Stormer , a white nationalist news website.

The attack was treated as a hate crime by police, and officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI were called in to assist in the investigation and manhunt. She recognized Roof driving his car, a black Hyundai Elantra with South Carolina license plates and a three-flag "Confederate States of America" bumper decoration, [71] [72] on U.

Route 74 , recalling security camera images taken at the church and distributed to the media. She later recalled, "I got closer and saw that haircut. I had the worst feeling.

Is that him or not him? Roof was arrested and was interrogated by agents of the FBI. He stated that he had been traveling to Nashville, Tennessee , when he was arrested in Shelby. Police in Shelby deferred his questioning to the FBI. Dylann Roof is the first person in U. In September , it was announced Roof would face capital punishment in his state prosecution, and in May , the U. Department of Justice announced Roof would face capital punishment in his federal prosecution as well.

On June 19, , Roof was charged with nine counts of murder and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. At the hearing, shooting survivors and relatives of five of the victims spoke to Roof directly, saying that they were "praying for his soul" and forgave him. On July 7, , Roof was indicted on three new charges of attempted murder, one for each person who survived the shooting.

Nicholson to start on July 11, The order explained that following his arrest in Shelby , notes and lists were found written on his hand and at other locations; that the handwriting samples were needed to determine if the handwriting matched. On September 3, state prosecutor Scarlett Wilson said that she intended to seek the death penalty for Roof because more than two people were killed in the shooting and others' lives were put at risk.

On September 16, Roof said through his attorney that he was willing to plead guilty to the state charges to avoid being sentenced to death.

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Roof reappeared in state court on October 23, , [84] before Nicholson. The jury selection process for the state trial was initially expected to start in June ; [99] jury selection was postponed in November In April , the state trial was delayed to January 17, On April 10, , Roof was sentenced to nine life sentences after pleading guilty to state murder charges. Five days after the shooting, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a grand jury had indicted Roof on 33 federal charges: On July 31, , Roof pleaded not guilty to the federal charges against him at the behest of his lawyer David Bruck.

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Roof wanted to plead guilty, but Bruck stated he was not willing to advise a guilty plea until the government indicated whether it wanted to seek the death penalty, as 18 of the 33 charges could carry the death penalty. On May 24, , the Justice Department announced they would seek the death penalty for Roof. As he was already facing the death penalty in South Carolina, Roof became the first person in U. On June 9, , Roof, through his lawyers, announced that he did not want to be tried by a jury.

If the request was granted, the judge presiding over his case would hear the case entirely by himself , determining guilt or innocence and, if Roof is convicted, whether to sentence him to death. On August 2, , Roof's lawyers filed a motion arguing that the federal capital punishment laws were unconstitutional. On August 23, , federal prosecutors filed court documents announcing their intention to call thirteen expert witnesses at trial, including white supremacy experts who were expected to testify on Roof's "extremist ideology, including a belief in the need to use violence to achieve white supremacy.

A hearing was set for September 1, The judge was to rule on the admissibility of some "potentially explosive" evidence. This is an unusually sensitive period in this proceeding where highly prejudicial publicity could taint the jury pool and make selection of a fair and impartial jury increasingly challenging. On September 6, , federal prosecutors filed a motion seeking to bar Roof's attorneys from asking the jurors for mercy during sentencing should he be found guilty of the charges against him.

They argue that the defense will already have the opportunity to present evidence that could sway the jury's opinion for sentencing. One of the charts was expected to be a timeline of the case as drafted by the agent responsible for investigating the shooting. Jury selection started on September 26, Gergel ordered a competency evaluation for Roof, which Gergel scheduled for November 16, Gergel also postponed the jury selection to November 21, On November 14, , Gergel delayed the competency hearing to November 17, Gergel also delayed the jury selection to November 28, On April 4, former police Officer Michael Slager fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, as he attempted to run away during a traffic stop.

But it wasn't until mobile phone video surfaced contradicting Slager's account that police began a proper investigation, which led to a murder charge days later and a formal indictment on June 8. In the aftermath of the killing, state senator and pastor Clementa Pinckney became increasingly vocal in his calls for pending legislation that would require police wear body cameras while on patrol.

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Pinckney called on his colleagues in state government to embrace the legislation, not as a "golden ticket" or "end-all-fix-all," but a useful means "to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop. Pinckney, who was leading Thursday night's study session at the church, was among the shooting victims.

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