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July 23, 2015

South Carolina: Dylann Roof Indicted on Federal Hate Crime Charges 
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A grand jury has indicted accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof on
federal hate crime charges for massacring nine African Americans inside
the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June.
Roof was indicted on 33 federal counts total and could face the death
penalty. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the indictment
Wednesday.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch: "We are here today to announce that a
federal grand jury in South Carolina has returned a 33-count indictment
against Dylann Storm Roof, charging him with federal hate crimes and
firearms charges for killing and attempting to kill African-American
parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, because of their race and in order to
interfere with their exercise of their religion."

 

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