The white nationalist that killed nine people at a church in charleston south carolina had a crazy hypothesis.
Race war roof.
Dylann roof is believed to have murdered the church congregants for the purpose of starting a race war.
The argument about roof s mental stability came as his attorneys asked a.
Not your typical white.
April 2012 minneapolis minnesota.
Pinckney and injured.
During a bible study at emanuel african methodist episcopal church roof killed nine people all african americans including senior pastor and state senator clementa c.
Dylann roof dylann roof the 21 year old suspect in the charleston church shooting that left nine people dead reportedly confessed to the crime according to two law enforcement officials who.
Grace beahm epa dylann roof appears at a bond hearing after killing nine worshipers at a black church in charleston s c in 2015.
Roof told police he had intended his act to create animosity between whites and blacks saying it causes friction and then you know it could lead to a race war roof also wrote about race war in a jailhouse journal he kept after his arrest.
His attorneys in a filing for the appeal said dylann believed that his sentence was of no consequence since the white nationalists would free him from prison after an impending race war.
In doing so he embodied this ideology one so insidious and pervasive among white.
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.
Dylann roof was convicted of killing nine people at a historic african american church in charleston south carolina.
Mayor muriel bowser said there was a stark contrast.
The mayor of washington dc said she fears a race war is brewing blaming outside agitators who come armed for battle.
Dylann storm roof born april 3 1994 is an american white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the charleston church shooting on june 17 2015 in the u s.
Dylann roof thought his massacre at the mother emanuel ame church would spark a race.