Is Dylann Roof

He was sentenced to death in a federal court in the 2015 mass shooting at emanuel ame church.

Is dylann roof.

Roof was born in columbia south carolina and was living in largely african american eastover at the time of the attack. Dylann roof is escorted into the court room at the charleston county judicial center in charleston south carolina april 10 2017. Police lead suspected shooter dylann roof into the courthouse in shelby north carolina on june 18 2015. State of south carolina.

Friends say dylann roof made occasional racist comments though they never thought he d be accused of killing nine people in a black church. Dylann roof walks into the courtroom to enter his guilty plea on murder charges at the charleston county judicial center in charleston south carolina on monday april 10 2017. Roof s appellate lawyers said roof had been diagnosed with. Dylann roof on tuesday appealed his federal convictions and death sentence in the 2015 massacre of nine black church members in south carolina arguing that he was mentally ill when he represented.

Grace beahm pool reuters april 22 2017 4 21 pm utc updated. Dylann roof letter shows no remorse 01 19. Dylann storm roof was named by the federal bureau of investigation fbi as the suspected killer after his father and uncle contacted police to positively identify him upon seeing security photos of him in the news. Jason miczek reuters file.

Dylann storm roof born april 3 1994 is an american white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the charleston church shooting on june 17 2015 in the u s. White supremacist mass murderer dylann roof staged a hunger strike this month while on federal death row alleging in letters to the associated press. Dylann roof enters a state courtroom.