Race-Hate Massacre Suspect CAPTURED: Gunman Who 'Shot Nine People Dead' at Historic US South Carolina Black Church after Telling Them 'You're Taking Over Our Country' is Taken into Custody by Cops
- Dylann Roof opened fire at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina around 9pm on Wednesday, killing nine people - three male victims and six females
- After fleeing from the schene, he was caught in North Carolina on Thursday morning
- It has emerged that Roof had entered the church around an hour before the shooting and had joined the bible study group before suddenly opening fire
- He let one woman escape so she could tell the world what happened while a child survived by playing dead
- Among the dead is 41-year-old Reverend Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the church and a South Carolina state senator who leaves behind a wife and two young daughters
- Police Chief Gregory Mullen said he believed the shooting was a hate crime
- The Department of Justice, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office have launched a hate crime investigation
Daily Mail UK, 18 June 2015
The white gunman who allegedly shot dead nine people during a bible study meeting at an African-American church in South Carolina last nighthas been caught in North Carolina.
Dylann Storm Roof, who fled the 150-year-old Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston after the shooting, was taken into custody in Shelby on Thursday morning following an hours-long manhunt.
On Wednesday, the 21-year-old allegedly entered the church and joined the bible study group before suddenly opening fire an hour later.
One survivor recounted how he reloaded his gun five times as he picked off his victims - killing three females and six males, including the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who is also a South Carolina state senator.
Pinckney's cousin said that one of the survivors told her they had urged Roof to stop.
'He just said: "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go",' Sylvia Johnson said.
Roof, from Lexington, spared one woman so she could 'tell the world what happened', eye witnesses recounted, while a five-year-old girl also survived the attack after her grandmother told her to play dead. The gunman then fled.
In custody: Dylann Storm Roof, 21, allegedly shot dead nine people in South Carolina last night. He is pictured left in an earlier mug shot and right in a jacket showing flags of apartheid-era South Africa and one from white-rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe
Search: Police had released these CCTV images showing the suspect as they launched a massive search to find him
Getaway vehicle: The suspect was pictured leaving the church in a black four door sedan which has a distinctive license plate
Victim: The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, has been confirmed as one of the dead who was killed in the massacre
'I have to do this': Chilling words heard by shooting witness;
Police launched a massive manhunt for Roof and released surveillance images showing him and his car, warning the public that he was dangerous. He was eventually caught on Thursday morning.
Roof's uncle, Carson Cowles, told Reuters that his nephew had received a .45 caliber pistol as a birthday present in April from his father.
He called the 21-year-old 'quiet, soft spoken' and said he recognized him in the photo released by police.
In another photograph of Roof on Facebook, he is seen glaring at the camera while displaying the flag of apartheid-era South Africa on his jacket. He is also wearing another flag depicting that of white-rule Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe.
Court records show he was charged with a drugs offense in March 2015 and trespassing in April.
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