Roof Shooting Charges

As roof returned to court this afternoon here is a look back at the pivotal moments in the charleston church tragedy.

Roof shooting charges.

Roof faces state charges. Roof 21 went on what federal authorities are calling a racially motivated shooting spree during the june 17 rampage at emanuel african methodist episcopal church. A jury in charleston s c has found dylann roof guilty on all 33 counts of federal hate crimes he faced for murdering nine people and attempting to kill three others in the basement of a. On july 7 roof was indicted on the nine murder charges and the weapons charge as well three new charges of attempted murder one for each person who survived the shooting.

Prosecutor scarlett wilson said tuesday that 21 year old dylann storm roof had been indicted on the state charges related to people who survived the june 17 attack. Roof who turned 23 last week has already been convicted of hate crimes in a federal case and has been sentenced to death for the murders at the predominantly black emanuel ame church in june 2015. Charleston shooting 49 photos. Roof became the first person to be ordered executed for a federal hate crime when he was sentenced to death for fatally shooting nine black church members at emanuel ame church in charleston south.

Nine counts of using a firearm to commit murder and 24 civil rights violations 12 hate crime charges under the matthew shepard and james byrd hate crimes prevention act and 12 counts under a second hate crime statute that prohibits using force or threatening the use of force to obstruct a person s free exercise of religious beliefs with 18 of the charges carrying. Dylann storm roof a ninth grade dropout who learned to hate black people on the internet was convicted thursday of 33 counts of federal hate crimes for slaughtering nine black.