Dylann Roof Case Study

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A mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States on June 17, 2015. Nine people were killed by a gunman, including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney but the tenth victim survived. The morning after the attack, police arrested a suspect, later identified as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, in Shelby, North Carolina. He later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of starting a race war. The United States Department of Justice investigated whether the shooting was a hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism. Dylann was charged with 33 federal hate crime charges. Dylann Roof is to be indicted on federal hate crime charges, and has been charged

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