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.

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. As roof returned to court this afternoon here is a look back at the pivotal moments in the charleston church tragedy. 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.

Roof faces state charges. 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. Roof 21 went on what federal authorities are calling a racially motivated shooting spree during the june 17 rampage at emanuel african methodist episcopal church. 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.

Five days after the shooting attorney general loretta lynch announced a grand jury had indicted roof on 33 federal charges. 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.