Charleston Church Shooting Suspect, Dylann Storm Roof, Captured
A
white man who joined a prayer meeting inside a historic black church
and then fatally shot nine people was captured without resistance
Thursday after an all-night manhunt, Charleston's police chief said.
Dylann
Storm Roof, 21, spent nearly an hour inside the church Wednesday night
before killing six women and three men, including the pastor, Chief Greg
Mullen said. A citizen spotted his car in Shelby, North Carolina,
nearly four hours away.
The
chief wouldn't discuss a motive. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr.
called it "pure, pure concentrated evil." Stunned community leaders and
politicians condemned the attack on The Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the Justice
Department has begun a hate crime investigation.
President Barack Obama, who personally knew the slain pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, said these shootings have to stop.
"At
some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this
type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,"
Obama said.
Pinckney,
41, was a married father of two who spent 19 years in the South
Carolina legislature. He became the youngest member of the House when he
was first elected as a Democrat at 23.
-Startribune
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