prayer meeting at a historic black church in this city’s downtown
area was caught on Thursday some 200 miles away in North Carolina, local and federal officials said.
After an intensive, 14-hour manhunt for the man who carried out a
massacre that officials are calling racially motivated, Dylann
Storm Roof, 21, “was arrested in Shelby, N.C., during a traffic
stop” shortly after 11 a.m., said Greg Mullen, the Charleston
police chief. Late Thursday, Mr. Roof was being flown back to
Charleston to face charges.
The police here say Mr. Roof, who is white, is suspected of being
the gunman who walked into the prayer meeting Wednesday night, sat
down with black parishioners for nearly an hour, and then opened fire.
The Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney during a service at Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2012.Killings Add Painful
Page to Storied History of Charleston ChurchJUNE 18, 2015
Dylann Storm Roof wearing a jacket with the flags of apartheid-era
South Africa, top, and Rhodesia, as modern-day Zimbabwe was called
during a period of white rule.Dylann Roof, Charleston Suspect,
Wore Symbols of White SupremacyJUNE 18, 2015
President Obama spoke Thursday about the shooting at the Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.Charleston
Shootings Undercut Hope Obama Brought for Better Race RelationsJUNE 18, 2015
Noah Nicolaisen, center, reflected at a makeshift memorial in Charleston,
S.C., where a gunman killed nine people Wednesday at the Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church.With Charleston Shooting, a Time to Stop
Teaching Children About the ‘History’ of Racial ViolenceJUNE 18, 2015
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the F.B.I., and the United
States Attorney’s Office for South Carolina have opened a hate crime
investigation into the shooting, which left six women and three men dead,
and Chief Mullen has called it a hate crime.
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