Authorities on Thursday arrested the suspect in the fatal shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., after a florist in North Carolina spotted the suspect’s car on her drive to work.
The suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, was arrested in Shelby, N.C. on Thursday morning, and he now awaits a bond hearing in Charleston.
Debbie Dills saw what she believed was the suspect’s car while driving toward Kings Mountain, N.C. She pulled over and called a friend, Todd Frady, who then called the Kings Mountain police, according to NBC News.
Dills told CNN that she had been watching news coverage of the shooting, which left nine people dead at a historic black church in Charleston, and she recognized Roof’s car and haircut.
She said that while Frady spoke to the police, she got back on the highway to catch up with the suspect.
“Everything inside of me said, it’s possible, but everything inside of me didn’t want to believe it either,” she told CNN.
Dills got the suspect’s license plate tag number, and police later apprehended Roof. Frady told Dills that the man she spotted driving was in fact Dylann Roof, according to NBC News.
“We did what good citizens should do,” she told NBC.
Watch Dills’ interview with CNN below:
