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U.S. NEWS Saturday 10 december 2016

Dylann Roof laughed during church slaying confession to FBI

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Later Friday, Roof’s hand- agent asked Roof what he
Dylann Roof wanted the written journal was read was doing on the night of
world to know he hated aloud. It was full of dubi- the killings. “I went to that
black people and thought ous, offensive racial claims church in Charleston and,
they were criminals. He about blacks and Jews, uh, I did it,” he said.
thought about attack- from stories about African- Roof said he wanted to
ing drug dealers, but they Americans enjoying slav- kill black people because
might shoot back. So, he ery to segregation keeping they rape white women
told the FBI, he picked a white people from being daily. Agents asked why he
historic black church in dragged down. chose Emanuel AME. He
Charleston he had learned “How could our faces, skin said online it was listed as
about online. In a video- color and body structure the oldest black church in
taped confession shown be so different, but our the South, and there prob-
Friday during his death brains exactly the same?” ably would not be any
penalty trial, Roof laughed Roof wrote. His video con- white people there.
several times and made fession came about 17 “I knew that would be
exaggerated gun motions hours after the shooting. a place to get a small
as he recounted the mas- FBI agents drove to Shelby, amount of black people
sacre. He explained that North Carolina, where he in one area,” Roof said,
he wanted to leave at was arrested. The plane later adding, “They’re in
least one person alive to that would take him back church, they weren’t crimi-
tell what happened and to Charleston was not nals or anything.” Earlier
complained that his vic- going to arrive for a few testimony from survivor Fe-
tims “complicated things” hours. So FBI agent Michael licia Sanders said Roof sat
when they hid under ta- Stansbury got permission through the Bible study
bles. to take a chance and in- In this June18, 2016 photo, Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from beside pastor Clementa
the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C. The trial for Roof, a
Forty-five minutes into the terview him immediately. white man accused of killing nine black people at the church, Pinckney and opened fire
interview, an FBI agent It paid off. After reading started Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, at the federal courthouse in as the rest of the group of
decided to tell him nine Roof his rights and engag- Charleston, S.C. 12 closed their eyes for a
people died in the June 17, ing in brief small talk, an (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) final prayer.q
2015, shootings at Emanuel
African Methodist Episco- Teen charged with murder in youth ranch attack
pal Church. “There wasn’t
even that many people in BRADY McCOMBS that he woke up Tuesday selor Jimmy Woolsey, 61, came back and attacked
there,” Roof said incredu- Associated Press morning feeling “heart- came out to check them. another worker, Alicia
lously. “Are you lying to SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An less” and that drug addic- Brewer told investigators he Keller, who survived. Au-
me?” The blurry video Arizona teenager was tion had taken over his life liked Woolsey but wanted thorities say Keller kept him
made it hard to see his charged with aggravated and was controlling him. to escape. from getting inside the cab-
face. After being told the murder and other counts He said the night before he “When you’re coming off in where other kids were.
details, an agent asked Friday in the brutal slaying had tried to kill himself by of drugs and tobacco like Keller threw him her car
how he felt. of one worker and the as- drinking bleach amid feel- I was, you lose your mind,” keys after he threatened to
“Well, it makes me feel sault on a second staffer at ings that his parents didn’t Brewer told investigators break a cabin window and
bad,” said Roof, who ear- a southern Utah ranch for love him and had betrayed after the incident. “That’s he left in her vehicle.
lier in the confession es- troubled teens. him. He grabbed a metal where I was at. I lost my Brewer was arrested after
timated he might have Clay Brewer, 17, hit the fire stick from inside a cab- mind.” deputies en route to the
killed five. counselor 10 times with a in while nobody else was Brewer, who had arrived ranch spotted him driv-
Roof’s lawyers have con- metal stick after “losing there. just days earlier, decided ing Keller’s car into nearby
ceded that he carried out his mind” because of an The next morning, he was he need to run after realiz- Escalante at 60 mph in a
the attack and are con- addiction to pills that led outside at a camp fire sit- ing what he had done. He 25 mph zone as parents
centrating on convincing him to be sent there, show ting in a circle where he grabbed Woolsey’s keys were dropping kids off for
jurors to spare his life in the charging documents. wasn’t allowed to talk to from his body but couldn’t school, according to the
second phase of the trial. Brewer told investigators anybody else when coun- get the truck started. He documents.q