Thursday, June 18, 2015

The cold stare of a 'killer': Race-hate 'gunman who shot dead nine at historic black church' is taken back to Charleston in chains

       
Dylann Storm Roof, the man who allegedly entered a South Carolina church and massacred nine people at their weekly bible study meeting, has been escorted in prison stripes onto a plane to be extradited from North Carolina. 
The 21-year-old was arrested shortly before noon on Thursday in Shelby, NC, 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 he 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.' before firing his gun. Thankfully, they have death penalty in South Carolina. More photos after the cut...
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His roommate revealed Roof had been planning the attack for six months, and had wanted to start a 'civil war' before killing himself. 
Roof 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.
                     Glares: He looked intensely at the camera as he was escorted from the police station just a few hours after his arrest 
                All smiles: Roof appeared to smile as he was hauled away from the Shelby Police Department in North Carolina at noon on Thursday
                Being escorted: He was chaperoned, in chains and a bullet proof vest, by more than a dozen armed officers onto the plane
                Prison stripes: Roof, 21, is pictured being escorted onto a plane to be extradited to South Carolina on Thursday
                Here an officer is pictured hauling Roof into the aircraft using the chains wrapped around his waist 

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