Dylann Storm Roof, the man who allegedly entered a South Carolina church last night and massacred nine people at their weekly bible study meeting, has been escorted in prison stripes onto a plane to be extradited to North Carolina.
The man who allegedly entered a South Carolina church and massacred nine people at their weekly bible study meeting, Dylann Storm Roof, has been escorted in prison stripes onto a plane to be extradited to North Carolina.
The 21-year old was arrested shortly before noon on Thursday in Shelby, 250 miles north of the targeted church in Charleston, SC. At 6.20pm local time he was seen in a jumpsuit, chains, handcuffs and a bullet-proof vest being chaperoned by dozens of armed police officers on to an airplane at Shelby-Cleveland County Regional Airport bound for South Carolina.
Survivors of the massacre claim Roof sat in the room for over an hour before standing up and saying: ‘You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go.’ He was detained after a member of the public spotted his car and called 911. Police say he surrendered without contest and was taken into custody when an officer approached his black Hyundai.
His roommate also told ABC News that Roof had been 'planning something like that for six months'.
'He was big into segregation and other stuff,' the roommate, Dalton Tyler, said. 'He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.'
Sources: CNN / Dailymail