The suspect in a mass shooting that left nine people dead Wednesday night at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina was arrested late Thursday morning, police Chief Greg Mullen said in a news conference.
21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof was arrested at about 11:15 a.m. ET during a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, Mullen said.
“I’m so pleased that we were able to resolve this case quickly,” Mullen said. “Not only for the families, but for our community, for our state and so that nobody else is harmed by this individual who obviously committed a tragic, heinous crime last night in the city of Charleston.”
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An excitable boy they all said…
Well north was clearly the right direction to flee. Genius. I can only assume he was trying to make it to Idaho.
Good.
He must have heard about the Great White North…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/18/everything-known-about-charleston-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof.html
Vanity licence plate with Confederate Flag.
“Roof wasn’t one of the outcasts, Mullins said.
(…) “I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs,” he said. “He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”
But now, “the things he said were kind of not joking,” Mullins added.”
DAD GIFTED HIM THE PISTOL FOR HIS 21st BIRTHDAY. He is the perfect son.