Wanted: Police are looking for Dylann Storm Roof, 21, who has been on the run since allegedly shooting dead nine people last night
The white gunman wanted by the police for shooting dead nine people during a bible study meeting at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina last night has been named as Dylann Storm Roof.On Wednesday, he allegedly entered the church and joined the bible study group before suddenly opening fire an hour later. One survivor recounted how he reloaded his gun five times as he picked off his victims - killing three females and six males, including the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who is also a South Carolina state senator.
Pinckney's cousin told NBC News that one of the survivors told her they had urged Roof to stop.
'He just said: "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go",' Sylvia Johnson said.
Roof, from Lexington, spared one woman so she could 'tell the world what happened', eye witnesses recounted, while a five-year-old girl also survived the attack after her grandmother told her to play dead. He then fled.
Police have just arrested him and taken him into Custody. More details to follow...
Police have released these CCTV images showing the suspect before he opened fire in the South Carolina church
'He just said: "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go",' Sylvia Johnson said.
Roof, from Lexington, spared one woman so she could 'tell the world what happened', eye witnesses recounted, while a five-year-old girl also survived the attack after her grandmother told her to play dead. He then fled.
Police have just arrested him and taken him into Custody. More details to follow...
Getaway vehicle: The suspect was pictured leaving the church in a black four door sedan pictured above.
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