Roof Shooting Charges

Roof faces state charges.

Roof shooting charges.

Prosecutor scarlett wilson said tuesday that 21 year old dylann storm roof had been indicted on the state charges related to people who survived the june 17 attack. Dylann storm roof a ninth grade dropout who learned to hate black people on the internet was convicted thursday of 33 counts of federal hate crimes for slaughtering nine black. Charleston south carolina cnn dylann roof who shot to death nine people in a historically black church in charleston south carolina pleaded guilty monday afternoon to all state charges in the. As roof returned to court this afternoon here is a look back at the pivotal moments in the charleston church tragedy.

A jury in charleston s c has found dylann roof guilty on all 33 counts of federal hate crimes he faced for murdering nine people and attempting to kill three others in the basement of a. On july 7 roof was indicted on the nine murder charges and the weapons charge as well three new charges of attempted murder one for each person who survived the shooting. Roof who turned 23 last week has already been convicted of hate crimes in a federal case and has been sentenced to death for the murders at the predominantly black emanuel ame church in june 2015. Roof became the first person to be ordered executed for a federal hate crime when he was sentenced to death for fatally shooting nine black church members at emanuel ame church in charleston south.

Charleston shooting 49 photos. Five days after the shooting attorney general loretta lynch announced a grand jury had indicted roof on 33 federal charges.