Dylann Storm Roof: Police Name Suspect in Charleston Church Shooting
Source: WHOTV
CHARLESTON, S.C. Hes white, slightly built and in his early 20s and police say he walked into a Charleston, South Carolina, church and fatally shot nine people as they attended Bible study class.
Dylann Storm Roof, 21, is now at the center of a major manhunt.
Police released a flier Thursday morning with details of the suspect in the attack on the historic African-American church as they appealed for help to track him down as quickly as possible.
Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen told a news conference that officers have obtained surveillance videos of the suspect in this case and a suspect vehicle.
Read more: http://whotv.com/2015/06/18/dylann-storm-roof-police-name-suspect-in-charleston-church-shooting/
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The photos of him at gun ranges and at gun clubs will Never surface.
His NRA membership will be 'disappeared.'
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)White perps get treated as misguided innocents who lost their way.
George II
(67,782 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)There is a hypocrisy regarding white mass murderers and Muslim murderers, especially in the mainstream media.
But at the same time, some people overdo it and hijack a tragedy to push a narrative; it kind of reminds me of the Boston marathon bombings and how a lot of people were hoping that the attackers were white men with the same feverish desire as gambling on a horse race or something. :/
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)wonder if there's a Neo-Nazi connection
LiberalArkie
(15,739 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)He's fairly-clearly a white-supremacist (or more-precisely a black-inferiorist...though the difference may be splitting hairs)
CanonRay
(14,146 posts)I wonder what he was in for then.
LiberalArkie
(15,739 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)Have to verify you are not a machine, but it goes to the record.
Javaman
(62,540 posts)and his middle and last name are Storm Roof? really?
montanacowboy
(6,116 posts)Wouldn't they be plastering this all over?
George II
(67,782 posts)Novara
(5,876 posts)And he's already got two arrests this year (trespassing, drug possession). Thanks, NRA, you murderous bastards.
Historic NY
(37,462 posts)South Carolina church shooter suspect got gun for birthday, uncle says
The man suspected of fatally shooting nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday, was given a gun by his father as a 21st birthday present in April, his uncle told Reuters on Thursday.
Law enforcement officers were at the home of Dylann Roof's mother on Thursday morning, the uncle, Carson Cowles, said in an interview.
The FBI has identified the gunman in the deadly shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper said on its website.
Cowles said he recognized Roof in a photo released by police, and described him as quiet and soft-spoken. Roof's father gave him a .45-caliber pistol for his birthday this year, Cowles said. (Reporting by Emily Flitter; Editing by James Dalgleish)
by cassandra.garrison 10:27 AM
http://live.reuters.com/Event/US_Live_Blog
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Botany
(70,666 posts).... he will face a choice on what to do. My bet is that he will "off himself."
No doubt the young man has deep mental issues but having the "stars and bars"
over the state capital building, hate radio, Fox News, and right wing racist web
sites along w/organizations I am sure helped to feed his inner demons.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)I just can't believe that people haven't noticed that these kids are really off. After they explode is way too late.
He really looks like the kid who dressed up as the Joker and shot all those people in the theater.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)When will we see "Bobby Jet Liner", "Joe Steam Locomotive", "Billy Package Logo" and "Coy Plugn Play" from SC?
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)But in a more aggressive manner, like Thor or such. Combined with the popular Dylann, typical name. Notice the 2 ns though, shows they wanted a popular name but had to modify it to showc they weren't just copying everyone else.
His name is Dylann Roof, Storm is only his middle name.
alfredo
(60,082 posts)padfun
(1,792 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:37 AM - Edit history (1)
is his dad will blame liberal policies for his evil.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)and Obama.
Boomerproud
(7,986 posts)Thanks for the .45 Daddy. When he is cornered, as other posters have said, he WILL off himself. Reads like a tired movie script.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)They drove him to kill innocent people in a Church.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)he's missed out on very promising career in the American police. Sic transit gloria mundi. A sad loss indeed for the police and legal officialdom alike.
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)https://twitter.com/MegMRivers/status/611552652896436224
George II
(67,782 posts)....that they found him so fast.
And he must have headed up there right away - it's a roughly five hour drive from Charleston.
George II
(67,782 posts)mercuryblues
(14,564 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)padfun
(1,792 posts)He seems to like these types.