9 Blacks killed in church. Cops looking for White guy
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If he does not get the death penalty, he will have to life the rest of his life in the hole. No way, no how this little white sh#tf#ce will be roaming free in jail without getting killed.
ROOF’S SISTER ARRESTED: Accused mass shooter’s sibling busted for allegedly possessing drugs, weapons at high school
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Published:
March 15, 2018
Updated:
March 15, 2018 9:13 PM EDT
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sister of the man sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015 has been arrested at her school and charged with bringing pepper spray, a knife and marijuana onto the campus.
Morgan Roof, 18, was arrested Wednesday at A.C. Flora High School after a school administrator contacted the school resource officer, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a news release.
This booking photo provided by Richland County, S.C. Public Information Office shows Morgan Roof. Roof, 18, was arrested Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at A.C. Flora High School after a school administrator contacted the school resource officer, and charged with two counts of carrying a weapon on school grounds and one count of simple possession of marijuana. She is the sister of Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 20 (Richland County, S.C. Public Information Office via AP)
She is charged with two counts of carrying a weapon on school grounds and one count of simple possession of marijuana.
No one was hurt.
A judge set her bond at $5,000 and said she could not return to the school. She was screened for a public defender. It was not known if she has an attorney yet.
Investigators say Roof also posted a Snapchat about the National School Walkout day protest against gun violence that alarmed fellow students, but no charges were filed for that message.
Roof is accused of posting an alarming Snapchat.
A neighbour of the Roof family said Morgan Roof is a shy, kind teen who loves animals and never showed any unusual behaviour.
“I can even remember a few occasions where she would join us in the neighbourhood at the community pool and at cookouts in a racially diverse setting where there was never any signs of racism from her or anyone else,” Chris Slick told The Associated Press.
School principal Susan Childs posted a letter to parents on the school’s Twitter page explaining what occurred while students walked out to remember the 17 killed in the Parkland, Florida, Valentine’s Day school shooting.
“A student used social media to post a hateful message. The posting was not a threat, but was extremely inappropriate. That student was dealt with in a swift and severe manner as the posting caused quite a disruption,” Childs wrote.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a statement Wednesday night praising school administrators and the sheriff’s department, saying a “potential tragedy” was avoided at the school.
This file photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows a Charleston County Sheriff booking photo of suspect Dylann Roof. AFP PHOTO
Dylann Roof was convicted of fatally shooting nine African-American parishioners at a Charleston church in 2015. A week before his sentencing in January 2017, Roof met with his family and told his sister he would invite her to his execution.
A video recording of one of the visits showed Roof’s sister trying to make small talk. Roof asked his sister what she wanted to do as a career, scoffing at the unoriginality of her dream to be a nurse. He told her that he no longer had to worry about making a living because he was in prison.
Roof’s sister smiled back. “You’re a professional dumbass,” she said.
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Accused mass shooter
Associated Press
More from Associated Press
Published:
March 15, 2018
Updated:
March 15, 2018 9:13 PM EDT
Dylann Roof's Sister Arrested On Weapons Charges 0:52
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sister of the man sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015 has been arrested at her school and charged with bringing pepper spray, a knife and marijuana onto the campus.
Morgan Roof, 18, was arrested Wednesday at A.C. Flora High School after a school administrator contacted the school resource officer, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a news release.
This booking photo provided by Richland County, S.C. Public Information Office shows Morgan Roof. Roof, 18, was arrested Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at A.C. Flora High School after a school administrator contacted the school resource officer, and charged with two counts of carrying a weapon on school grounds and one count of simple possession of marijuana. She is the sister of Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 20 (Richland County, S.C. Public Information Office via AP)
She is charged with two counts of carrying a weapon on school grounds and one count of simple possession of marijuana.
No one was hurt.
A judge set her bond at $5,000 and said she could not return to the school. She was screened for a public defender. It was not known if she has an attorney yet.
Investigators say Roof also posted a Snapchat about the National School Walkout day protest against gun violence that alarmed fellow students, but no charges were filed for that message.
Roof is accused of posting an alarming Snapchat.
A neighbour of the Roof family said Morgan Roof is a shy, kind teen who loves animals and never showed any unusual behaviour.
“I can even remember a few occasions where she would join us in the neighbourhood at the community pool and at cookouts in a racially diverse setting where there was never any signs of racism from her or anyone else,” Chris Slick told The Associated Press.
School principal Susan Childs posted a letter to parents on the school’s Twitter page explaining what occurred while students walked out to remember the 17 killed in the Parkland, Florida, Valentine’s Day school shooting.
“A student used social media to post a hateful message. The posting was not a threat, but was extremely inappropriate. That student was dealt with in a swift and severe manner as the posting caused quite a disruption,” Childs wrote.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a statement Wednesday night praising school administrators and the sheriff’s department, saying a “potential tragedy” was avoided at the school.
This file photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows a Charleston County Sheriff booking photo of suspect Dylann Roof. AFP PHOTO
Dylann Roof was convicted of fatally shooting nine African-American parishioners at a Charleston church in 2015. A week before his sentencing in January 2017, Roof met with his family and told his sister he would invite her to his execution.
A video recording of one of the visits showed Roof’s sister trying to make small talk. Roof asked his sister what she wanted to do as a career, scoffing at the unoriginality of her dream to be a nurse. He told her that he no longer had to worry about making a living because he was in prison.
Roof’s sister smiled back. “You’re a professional dumbass,” she said.
http://mailchi.mp/floraeformation/ac-flora-eformation-a-letter-from-principal-childs-mbfh7bevmq
Accused mass shooter
Appeals court: Victims of Dylann Roof mass shooting can sue U.S. over his gun purchase
Reuters
Published:
August 30, 2019
Updated:
August 30, 2019 4:32 PM EDT
Dylann Roof sits in the court room at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in state court for the 2015 shooting massacre at a historic black church, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., April 10, 2017.POOL New / REUTERS
A federal appeals court said on Friday that survivors of a 2015 mass shooting at a South Carolina church can sue the U.S. government over its alleged negligence in allowing Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used to kill nine African-Americans.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government was not immune from liability under either the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) or the Brady Act to prevent handgun violence.
Friday’s decision by a three-judge panel revived 16 lawsuits that challenged lapses in how the government vetted prospective gun purchasers, including its management of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment. William Wilkins, a former chief judge of the 4th Circuit representing the victims, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
ROOF’S SISTER ARRESTED: Accused mass shooter’s sibling busted for allegedly possessing drugs, weapons at high school
White supremacist who bought gun for planned church attack pleads guilty
How U.S. mass shooters got their guns
Roof, a white supremacist, had been admitted to a Bible study session at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, where he then used his .45-caliber Glock semiautomatic pistol in the shooting.
Victims said a proper background check would have shown that Roof had recently admitted to drug possession, which would have disqualified him from buying the gun from a federally licensed dealer two months earlier.
Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote for the Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court that no one disputed that a proper check would have stopped Roof. But he said U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in Charleston was wrong to dismiss the lawsuits on immunity grounds in June 2018, even as Gergel faulted the government’s “abysmally poor policy choices” in managing the background check system.
Gregory said the case turned on the NICS examiner’s alleged negligence in disregarding mandatory procedures that if followed would have uncovered Roof’s drug admission. “The government can claim no immunity in these circumstances,” he wrote.
Circuit Judge G. Steven Agee partially dissented, saying the government was not immune from Brady Act claims, but agreeing with Gergel that the FTCA case should have been dismissed.
Roof, now 25, was sentenced to death in January 2017 after being convicted on 33 federal counts related to the shooting, including hate crimes. He pleaded guilty three months later to state murder charges, and was sentenced to nine consecutive life terms without parole.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/ap...ss-shooting-can-sue-u-s-over-his-gun-purchase
Reuters
Published:
August 30, 2019
Updated:
August 30, 2019 4:32 PM EDT
Dylann Roof sits in the court room at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in state court for the 2015 shooting massacre at a historic black church, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., April 10, 2017.POOL New / REUTERS
A federal appeals court said on Friday that survivors of a 2015 mass shooting at a South Carolina church can sue the U.S. government over its alleged negligence in allowing Dylann Roof to buy the gun he used to kill nine African-Americans.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government was not immune from liability under either the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) or the Brady Act to prevent handgun violence.
Friday’s decision by a three-judge panel revived 16 lawsuits that challenged lapses in how the government vetted prospective gun purchasers, including its management of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment. William Wilkins, a former chief judge of the 4th Circuit representing the victims, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
ROOF’S SISTER ARRESTED: Accused mass shooter’s sibling busted for allegedly possessing drugs, weapons at high school
White supremacist who bought gun for planned church attack pleads guilty
How U.S. mass shooters got their guns
Roof, a white supremacist, had been admitted to a Bible study session at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, where he then used his .45-caliber Glock semiautomatic pistol in the shooting.
Victims said a proper background check would have shown that Roof had recently admitted to drug possession, which would have disqualified him from buying the gun from a federally licensed dealer two months earlier.
Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote for the Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court that no one disputed that a proper check would have stopped Roof. But he said U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in Charleston was wrong to dismiss the lawsuits on immunity grounds in June 2018, even as Gergel faulted the government’s “abysmally poor policy choices” in managing the background check system.
Gregory said the case turned on the NICS examiner’s alleged negligence in disregarding mandatory procedures that if followed would have uncovered Roof’s drug admission. “The government can claim no immunity in these circumstances,” he wrote.
Circuit Judge G. Steven Agee partially dissented, saying the government was not immune from Brady Act claims, but agreeing with Gergel that the FTCA case should have been dismissed.
Roof, now 25, was sentenced to death in January 2017 after being convicted on 33 federal counts related to the shooting, including hate crimes. He pleaded guilty three months later to state murder charges, and was sentenced to nine consecutive life terms without parole.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/ap...ss-shooting-can-sue-u-s-over-his-gun-purchase
Now there is a gift to lawyers.Probably more lucritive than the land claims industry in Canada.
Dylann Roof, who killed 9 at S.C. black church, appeals conviction, death sentence
Reuters
Published:
January 29, 2020
Updated:
January 29, 2020 11:42 AM EST
Dylann Storm Roof appears by closed-circuit television at his bond hearing in Charleston, S.C., June 19, 2015, in a still image from video. REUTERS/POOL, File
Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who killed nine black churchgoers in a hate-fuelled attack on a South Carolina church in 2015, has appealed his conviction and death sentence, with his lawyers arguing he was too mentally ill to have represented himself at trial.
“This Court should vacate Roof’s convictions and death sentence,” says his appeal, filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday.
After Roof represented himself at trial and presented no evidence, a jury found him guilty of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death, for the mass shooting at the landmark Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.
That same jury gave him the death penalty in January 2017 after deliberating for less than three hours.
Federal public defenders representing Roof said in a 321-page brief that when Roof represented himself, he was a “22-year-old, ninth-grade dropout diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, autism, anxiety, and depression, who believed his sentence didn’t matter because white nationalists would free him from prison after an impending race war.”
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His defence lawyers, at the time of his 2016 trial, told the court that in their decades of experience, “none had represented a defendant so disconnected from reality,” the appeal brief said.
Yet Roof was allowed to represent himself and offered no response to prosecutors’ arguments that he was a “calculated killer with no signs of mental illness.”
“Roof’s crime was tragic, but this Court can have no confidence in the jury’s verdict,” the filing said.
http://torontosun.com/news/crime/dy...lack-church-appeals-conviction-death-sentence
Reuters
Published:
January 29, 2020
Updated:
January 29, 2020 11:42 AM EST
Dylann Storm Roof appears by closed-circuit television at his bond hearing in Charleston, S.C., June 19, 2015, in a still image from video. REUTERS/POOL, File
Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who killed nine black churchgoers in a hate-fuelled attack on a South Carolina church in 2015, has appealed his conviction and death sentence, with his lawyers arguing he was too mentally ill to have represented himself at trial.
“This Court should vacate Roof’s convictions and death sentence,” says his appeal, filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday.
After Roof represented himself at trial and presented no evidence, a jury found him guilty of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death, for the mass shooting at the landmark Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.
That same jury gave him the death penalty in January 2017 after deliberating for less than three hours.
Federal public defenders representing Roof said in a 321-page brief that when Roof represented himself, he was a “22-year-old, ninth-grade dropout diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, autism, anxiety, and depression, who believed his sentence didn’t matter because white nationalists would free him from prison after an impending race war.”
Story continues below
His defence lawyers, at the time of his 2016 trial, told the court that in their decades of experience, “none had represented a defendant so disconnected from reality,” the appeal brief said.
Yet Roof was allowed to represent himself and offered no response to prosecutors’ arguments that he was a “calculated killer with no signs of mental illness.”
“Roof’s crime was tragic, but this Court can have no confidence in the jury’s verdict,” the filing said.
http://torontosun.com/news/crime/dy...lack-church-appeals-conviction-death-sentence