Roof Shooting Charges

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 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. Charleston shooting 49 photos. Five days after the shooting attorney general loretta lynch announced a grand jury had indicted roof on 33 federal charges. As roof returned to court this afternoon here is a look back at the pivotal moments in the charleston church tragedy.

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. Convicted charleston church shooter dylann roof was given nine consecutive life sentences in state prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder charges monday leaving him to. Prosecutor scarlett wilson said tuesday that 21 year old dylann storm roof had been indicted on the state charges related to people who survived the june 17 attack. 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.

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. Roof faces state charges.