The man accused of killing nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church confessed to the crime, unnamed law enforcement officials told CNN Friday. MSNBC also reported that 21-year-old Dylann Roof, accused of the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, had confessed, citing unnamed law enforcement officers as their source. When reached by The Huffington Post Friday morning, Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis declined to confirm a confession. Roof was arrested on Thursday after a florist in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, noticed his vehicle and alerted police. He was taken into custody shortly afterwards in Shelby, North Carolina, more than 200 miles from Charleston. Dalton Tyler, Roof’s roommate, told ABC News he’d known the alleged killer for at …
The man accused of killing nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church confessed to the crime, unnamed law enforcement officials told CNN Friday.
MSNBC also reported that 21-year-old Dylann Roof, accused of the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, had confessed, citing unnamed law enforcement officers as their source.
When reached by The Huffington Post Friday morning, Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis declined to confirm a confession.
Roof was arrested on Thursday after a florist in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, noticed his vehicle and alerted police. He was taken into custody shortly afterwards in Shelby, North Carolina, more than 200 miles from Charleston.
Dalton Tyler, Roof’s roommate, told ABC News he’d known the alleged killer for at least seven months, and that Roof had been “planning something like that for six months.”
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
Roof’s uncle, Carson Cowles, told Reuters that his nephew received a gun for his 21st birthday in April. It’s unclear whether that gun was used in the shooting. Charleston Police and the Department of Justice have declined to discuss any specifics of the ongoing investigation.
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Dylann Roof Allegedly Confesses To Killing 9 In Charleston Shooting
