Roof Roommate Says Charleston Suspect Planned Shooting For 6 Months
Source: Talking Points Memo retelling of ABC News
The roommate of the white, 21-year old man who allegedly massacred nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina said Thursday that he thought the suspect had been planning the attack for about six months.
Dalton Tyler told ABC News that he'd known Dylann Storm Roof for about seven months to a year. Tyler told the news outlet that he last saw Roof about a week ago and knew he'd been planning something like the Charleston church attack "for six months."
He was big into segregation and other stuff, Tyler told ABC News. He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.
Read more: Roommate Says Charleston Suspect Planned Shooting For 6 Months
http://twitter.com/CynthiaRoldan/status/611581582638514176/photo/1
Pic from Cynthia Roldan's Tweet.
A man inside #DylannRoof's home declined to speak, adding we should get off his property before he called deputies.
10:09 AM - 18 Jun 2015 · South Carolina, USA, United States
They went to the house and there's a Tweet; but I do not know how to properly embed here.
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Apparently (according to comment 26 below and link to mainstream source).....the inutial reports oh his dad buying the "felon" a gun...are inaccurate!
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laserhaas
(7,805 posts)or the Yo Yo just confessed to knowledge before the fact (18 U.S.C. $ MisPrision of a Felony).
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:00 PM - Edit history (2)
he's certainly guilty.
rocktivity
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)So much stuff to learn - about HTML and DU protocols.
starroute
(12,977 posts)As far as I know, the tweet can't be embedded directly.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)http://abcnews.go.com/US/charleston-shooting-closer-alleged-gunman-dylann-roof/story?id=31865375
A court clerk confirmed to ABC News this afternoon that Roof waived extradition in North Carolina and is cleared to return to South Carolina.
ABC News' Cleopatra Andreadis contributed to this report."I am so pleased we were able to resolve this case quickly," Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said at a news conference.
A court clerk confirmed to ABC News this afternoon that Roof waived extradition in North Carolina and is cleared to return to South Carolina.
ABC News' Cleopatra Andreadis contributed to this report.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)And is now probably in very deep pooh - for keeping the mouth shut.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Many states have laws forbidding such to own guns - post conviction
(weird how some let you keep the "pre"conviction weapons).
It seems Dylan's father had to know about his son's conviction.
Hence, the dad is guilty for buying the kid he gun.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)The dad did not buy him the gun, the initial report was incorrect.
Dylann Roof bought it himself with birthday money, and passed a background check. Roof was not a convicted felon. The pending drug charge is a misdemeanor, not a felony.
Lots of bad information out there.
[link:http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/charleston-church-massacre-dylann-roofs-gun-bought-local-store|
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Bunch of bunk
Weird
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)after Roof received the gun?
rocktivity
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Dad is in deep pooh - possibly - too!
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/nation/urgent-charleston-shooting-gun-for-birthday/33651186
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)It sounds like he needs to be investigated for possible accessory to murder charges.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)to go after this acquaintance if he didn't know any specifics. I'm not trying to defend the guy, but if I say "I could kill that SOB!" without being specific about who (if anyone) I was talking about - is someone who hears me responsible for reporting what I uttered?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)As does the numb-nutz father for buying the drug addict a gun.
For cryin.. out... frggn...loud!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Over time
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Wow
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)You are describing a case in which someone hears an off hand comment, the OP describes a case in which a person lived with the perpetrator and was listening to him plan the actions over a six month period. It is much easier to prosecute someone who spent six months listening to someone planning this sort of act than it is to prosecute someone who hears an off hand comment.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)They need VERY bright attirneys to keep them out of jail.
To send a clear message for the future nutz
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)I'm sure he didn't believe that Roof was going to actually do what he was talking about. If you thought your roommate was going to commit mass murder, I think you'd get a new roommate.
Now if he did know that it was a serious intent and the cops can find any evidence pointing to that, then the roommate is in for a substantial prison term. I am sure he will be investigated.
I mean, compare this to the Eric Sheppard case - no one believed Sheppard was serious:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/flagstomping_fugitive_eric_sheppard_threatens_to_kill_police_whites_and_others_in_manifesto.html
And you know, Sheppard wasn't serious. They were right. Almost no one of this age ever IS serious. Lots of stuff is said. Most of it is just rhetoric.
Roof, now Roof was very serious.
Myrina
(12,296 posts).... he said that Roof had repeatedly talked about 'shooting up a school' ... but "we never thought it would be a church".
So apparently a school was a fair target but a church wasn't, in his mind.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)...who had knowledge of the OKC bomb plot.
Stay tuned!
alboe
(192 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Genius on many levels here (such as the dad buying his druggie son - a gun).
Mopar151
(9,992 posts)Workin' in the shop, talk crazy shit about killin', torture, death and guns all day. Claimed he was goint to be saved in the rapture, I think he was a little better when he had pot, you could get him to laugh a little...But the boy was'nt right.....And there's a LOT of em' out there, ask around.
What amazes me is how few have acted out, with the hatred that is rained down on folks betwixt and between.
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)The idea that I would be aware of an impending mass murder. For months and not take some kind of action. Think I would be pushing Daisies before very long.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Like Romney destroyed me and hus cronies kidnapped my daughter....all while doing federal corruption
Abd I can't muster up such inhumanity
bigworld
(1,807 posts)I mean, it took him six months to plan what he did?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)of 9 lives lost.