Snapchat Video Allegedly Shows Chaleston Shooter Right Before Attack

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A video filmed on the app Snapchat by one of the victims of the Wednesday shooting in Charleston, S.C. showed the killer Dylann Roof in the Bible study he would open fire on moments later, according to the website Mashable.

The brief video, obtained by Mashable, showed footage of several people sitting around tables, apparently inside the Emanuel AME Church, on Wednesday night before Roof opened fire. The footage showed what appeared to be a white man sitting beyond several black attendees.

Mashable reported that the video was shot by the attack’s youngest victim, Tywanza Sanders, 26, and that several of his friends confirmed the clip’s authenticity.

“I didn’t notice until now that Dylann was just a few people away from Wanza,” a friend of Sangers told Mashable.”You can slightly see him in the right corner of the screenshot.”

At about 9 p.m. ET, the suspect opened fire and killed nine people, including Sanders and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney (D), who was also the pastor of the church.

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  1. "… the attack’s youngest victim, Tywanza Sanders…

    … a friend of Sangers…"

    Sanders or Sangers?

  2. Relevance to anything?

  3. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Evidence. Yes, there were three eye witnesses, but a criminal lawyer and for that matter a criminal cable entertainment news corporation will argue against the witness testimony. It will take every shred of evidence to get a conviction in SC.

  4. Avatar for storm storm says:

    I suspect this time the blond faces of fox will not be saying: “victim was no angel”. They will continue to be played this up as christian victims, not black ones, and secular liberal killer has little chance of walking away from this.

  5. Only a matter of time before one of these mad boys actually films himself in the act of killing and posts it to social media platforms for instant maximum shock impact and eternal “fame.”

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