Roof Shooting Charges

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.

Roof shooting charges.

Roof faces state charges. 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. 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. 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.

Convicted charleston church shooter dylann roof was given nine consecutive life sentences in state prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder charges monday leaving him to. As roof returned to court this afternoon here is a look back at the pivotal moments in the charleston church tragedy. 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. Charleston south carolina cnn dylann roof who shot to death nine people in a historically black church in charleston south carolina pleaded guilty monday afternoon to all state charges in the.

Charleston shooting 49 photos. 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.