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  • SC Church Shooter Dylann Roof Declines to Call Witnesses or Present Evidence in Penalty Phase of Trial 

    Self-professed white supremacist Dylann Roof was back in court Wednesday morning ahead of the penalty phase of his federal trial and is seemingly not willing to put up much of a fight to spare his own life, CNN reports. According to the report, Roof told a federal judge that he still plans to represent himself during…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Dylann Roof Determined Fit to Stand Trial for Charleston, SC, Church Massacre

    A court in South Carolina ruled today that shooting suspect Dylann Roof is fit to stand trial for the deaths of nine black parishioners at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last year. As The Root reported earlier this month, a federal judge acknowledged that he had ordered an evaluation regarding whether…

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  • Judge Is Deliberating Over Accused SC Church Shooter’s Competency to Stand Trial 

    A judge has begun deliberating whether Dylann Roof, the accused shooter at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.,, is competent to stand trial following a second day of a closed-door hearing, the Greenville News reports. The hearing on Roof’s competency started Monday afternoon and extended into Tuesday afternoon, with the federal court then…

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  • Accused Charleston, SC, Shooter 'Self-Radicalized' Online, Prosecutors Say

    Accused Charleston, S.C., shooter Dylann Roof “self-radicalized” online, adopting viewpoints that were reportedly acquired through material found online and elsewhere, federal prosecutors say, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, rather than adopting his beliefs “through his personal associations or experiences with white supremacist groups or individuals or others,” prosecutors say, Roof adopted his…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Man Who Beat Up Dylann Roof Is Out on Bond

    More than 18 months after his arrest, the man who assaulted Dylann Roof is out on bond—less than 48 hours after an online donation fund was set up in his name. According to court records, 26-year-old Dwayne Stafford, who was jailed on charges of strong armed robbery, assault and lying to police, was released Friday…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Attorneys for Accused Charleston, SC, Church Shooter Dylann Roof Ask for Dismissal of Federal Case

    Attorneys for Dylann Roof, accused of shooting nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., are calling the federal case unconstitutional and asking for those charges to be dropped, WCSC reports. The court documents, which were filed Tuesday, assert that the case against Roof should be handled by the state of South…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Prosecutor Asks That SC Be Allowed to Hold Dylann Roof Trial 1st

    A South Carolina state attorney is asking that the state be allowed to prosecute accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooter Dylann Roof before the federal government does, the Associated Press reports. Claiming that the state has primary jurisdiction over the case, 9th Judicial Circuit solicitor Scarlett Wilson, who will be prosecuting Roof for the state, said Tuesday that…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Mother Emanuel Holds Services of Remembrance, a Year After Mass Shooting at the Church

    Exactly a year ago, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., was left reeling after a horrific mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine victims, including church pastor and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney. Today, Friday, the church is remembering those parishioners, embracing the community with a message of love, as it remember those…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Racist Seeking Racist: How the Internet Helped Create Dylann Roof

    Before accused South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof one year ago walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where parishioners welcomed him into their Bible study, he was “locked in his room looking up bad stuff on his computer,” Paige Mann, Roof’s former stepmother, told Time. “Something on the computer drew him in—this internet evil.” Roof…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • We Are Charleston: The Mother Emanuel Church Shooting a Year Later

    Forgiveness. It was the main thing that stuck out, and one of the few things outsiders didn’t understand about Charleston, S.C., last year. How could so many who’d lost so much forgive then-21-year-old Dylann Roof after he allegedly shot and killed nine African-American worshippers during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church? Only five people survived…

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    Allison Keyes

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