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| The man suspected of killing nine people at a 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. 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 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. “We will now be looking at all of the facts, all of the motivations that led this individual, if in fact he is the shooter,” to carry out the killings, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch said at a news conference. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting.html?_r=0
A real tragedy, specially with the talk of that the person (Who may or may not be the person in custody) sat in the church for a good hour before he began firing. Will this be a push into bringing the gun laws to discussion in the courts? probably not, but it gives an idea, specially they say his father bought a 45 caliber for him for his 21st birthday. Sad, a place for peace and tranquility turned into something bad.
