CHARLESTON POLICE RELEASE PHOTOS OF CHURCH SHOOTING SUSPECT
|| By FITSNEWS || The Charleston, S.C. police department has released photos of the individual sought by multiple law enforcement agencies in connection with this week’s deadly church shooting in the Holy City.
“Suspect is described as a younger white male,” the police bulletin accompanying the photos stated. “He stands approximately 5’09” in height and has a slender build.”
According to the bulletin, the suspect was seen leaving the scene of the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in a black four-door sedan.
“Law enforcement needs help to identify this individual as part of an ongoing homicide investigation,” the bulletin noted. “The suspect is considered armed and dangerous.”
UPDATE: Suspect has been identified as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof of Columbia, S.C.
UPDATE II: Roof arrested.
Read more at https://www.fitsnews.com/2015/06/18/charleston-church-shooting-the-latest/#pUBIACbRLh0lolxG.99
Nine people – including S.C. Senator Clementa Pinckney (Emanuel’s pastor) – are confirmed dead as a result of the shooting, which took place approximately one hour after the suspect entered the church and sat with parishioners who had gathered for a mid-week Bible study.
Here’s the full bulletin …
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(Pic: Charleston, S.C. police department)
127 comments
Who was it that was arguing against the death penalty a couple of days ago?
yup. and we called him out and as we noted in our original coverage atrocities like this are why we support the death penalty.
And nothing will change – you think the death penalty would is a deterent for such a sick racist kid?
It would deter the bastard that did this from ever doing it again.
He’ll spend his life in jail with or without the death penalty and never have that chance again anyway….your argument is irrelevant.
Tell that to Richard Matt and David Sweat, or Pee Wee Gaskins, or Paul Mania, or Michael Bozarth.
Alright, point made…but if we focus on the model of justice we are supposed to have in the US, where we let the occasional guilty go free to assure no one innocent is jailed(or killed) then the rare exceptions are “acceptable”.
I can’t remember the specific academic name for it justice wise right now, (it was college where I learned it) but I’m sure you know of what I’m speaking as you seem to be to educated man.
The other day, I provided a list of guilty folks whet there was no doubt that the convicted was in fact guilty (Gaskins was on the list, his death sentence was commuted until he killed another prisoner). There is no doubt James Holmes is guilty, many, many other capital murder cases are just as cut and dried.
Now I know that in your mind that you are a true patriot, and I say that with no malice.
It makes sense because you’ve devoted your life to the US government-
But, that very government coudn’t even keep a lid on your security clearance information…and lost it to a rival none the less….THEN didn’t tell you about it for over a year.
Seriously, this is the institution that you want judging who should or shouldn’t die? Are you that sure that everyone convicted should die? Because the problem is, if you’re not, then you’ve decided to accept the “break a few eggs to make a omlet” notion in US justice….
Last time I looked it was twelve of you and me making the call…
The problem is that the justice system/government controls the flow of information for the decision point….
You never went to college. And it shows. LMAO!!!!!!!
You are referring to Blackstone’s Formulation – “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”
I don’t disagree with the notion however, in the cases where there are clear eyewitnesses and the guilty party is caught with evidence of the crime still on his person, I’m willing to risk it.
“You are referring to Blackstone’s Formulation”
Nah, that’s not what I was referring to… it was a mixture of law & logic. I want to say it was something along the lines of a “beta” model or something.
Anyway, from my perspective you are saying two opposite things:
“I don’t disagree with the notion”, then “I’m willing to risk it”.
The system doesn’t delineate…..that’s the problem.
Okay, since you ignored the “…in the cases where…” clause I guess you wouldn’t see the difference.
Jame Holmes was caught at the scene of the Aurora Movie Theater massacre – there is no doubt that he was the perpetrator, evidence on his person, in his car and at his apartment clearly links him to the act. I don’t really care if he is “mentally ill” – most murderers are to one degree or another, he deserves to be put to death.
Slager probably deserves a murder charge (he’ll get manslaughter) – there is no doubt (thanks to a tape) that he shot an unarmed man, who probably posed little risk to society, in the back. I only say probably because we don’t really know all the facts about Mr. Scott, there may have been some reason for Slager to treat him as a fleeing felon (though I doubt it)
“Okay, since you ignored the “…in the cases where…” clause I guess you wouldn’t see the difference.”
No, I really didn’t…I addressed it by saying the current system “doesn’t delineate.”
To you and me, it’s “common sense”, but not to the justice system.
It’s a systemic problem.
So? picked a crappy time for that argument. I guess National news is a thing for him.
Not really, it’s good he brings it up.
It’s not like everyone runs indoors every time they hear thunder. If the chance of the lightening strike go up, many people just accept that and carry on.
Lightning is a phenomena of nature, only Libs think they can control that. Incarceration and Justice, or lack there of, are man made. Almost undoubted,those two asshats are going to kill while they are on the run so explain natural vs man made to the potential victims and their families.
Yea, but you’re not speaking to the issue me and the good Colonel are discussing…which is the death penalty.
Look, if anyone, you of all people should understand the danger of giving a mostly incompetent government & justice system control of someone actual life.
It might be different if the justice system and/or government was functional to any significant degree, but it’s not.
that would be Paul Coon not Mania
Actually it would be Paul Mannina (frigging auto-correct)
But why in the FUCK should WE pay for it???? Go fuck yourself.
You obviously have emotional issues. Once you get your anger issues under control you’ll probably find more people willing to debate with you.
Yeah … I want to rip your throat out and shit down your neck.
I want to pee in your face :-)
I don’t want to pay for one freakin’ breakfast for this kid. Let alone his bedding, shower water etc.
I understand your concern…but take a step back and look at the big picture.
Would you rather pony up for a scum bag like this rotting in a cell, or send him to the chair but know that occasional man goes that wasn’t guilty?
That’s the question you have to ask yourself, and I understand that people feel differently about it- but let’s not pretend the system doesn’t convict innocent people.
Well in this case, I would suggest to you we have the ability to set a bar. We catch this little GT and we have him visually there, on video, and without a shadow of a doubt – inject him. (Actually hanging him from a nice tree limb on the Battery would be nicer), but if it’s cloudy, there’s no direct video linking the killer on a singular murder, and it makes us feel better – he can rot in Jail. Maybe in honor of the slain State Senator – for those folks we can renovate Castle Pinkney into a rat and crab infested set of jail cells.
Not necessarily. Plenty of people who received life sentences went on to commit additional murders. Some committed them in prison against guards, other staff, or other inmates. Some escaped and committed them on the outside. Still others got sentence reductions, parole, or other early releases and committed additional murders. To my knowledge, no one who actually received the death penalty went on to commit other murders, save for those who came back (reincarnated), grew up for a few years, and started down that path again.
You have the death penalty – does it work?
Yes, every time it is applied it keeps another killer from killing again.
Works for defendant, to be sure.
It’s not so much the deterrence value as much as the excellent recidivism rates being so low, like zero.
EXACTLY, my friend!!!!!
Man, I am glad to hear from you. Are you OK? You kind of just fell off the radar there. I just picked up a H & K P2000 for $800 recently and I thought about how much I’ve missed your conversation, you kind of helped kickstart my gun collection which I will always be appreciative of, the little woman, not so much.
There is no recidivism with life without parole.
‘racist’? It appears this was a terrorist attack against Christians, in a Christian church and had nothing to do with race.
BS – a kid who’s face book photo is wearing an aparthied flag? Who tells a survivor he had to do it because “you’re raping our women and taking over.” Little racist POS. Again, no lethal injection. Public hanging at the Battery, televised. And who the ef wears a long sleeve shirt, jeans and boots in mid-June in the Charleston. It’s hot as heck. Must have been really cold blooded.
You better believe the death penalty DOES deter; but not in ever case. BUT IT DOES, chump.
What makes you think that?
All of the people wrongfully convicted of murder and executed never went on to kill anyone else.
But if he is sentenced to death, none of the other sick twisted psycho shooters will shoot up innocent people, because people with nothing to lose and possibly suicidal thoughts definitely care about their lives.
You can’t solve the truly sick folks here, regardless of the prohibitions you put in place or the penalties they suffer (except once they’re dead they can cause no further harm) – what you can do is give the “marginally sane” to normal reason for pause.
Are you talking about this shooter or the three black guys who shot the lady in the bakery last year? They didn’t get the death penalty.
Or for gun control?
What the hell is wrong with people these days?
Most people in this world are complete idiots, have you not driven on an interstate highway lately?
“Most people in this world are complete idiots.” Squishy123 falls into that category.
He’s not a complete idiot. He’s racist, at times annoying, & wrong occasionally on some topics….but he’s right on others.
He also has a good sense of humor at times.
Life is complicated like that, as much as we’d like to call certain people “evil”(including GT/Pogo, etc. et al) and leave it at that, you’d be challenged to find someone that has committed all evil acts their whole life and done zero good at all….it might even be impossible to find such a person.
Say that to my face and I’ll shoot you in the head.
Too soon?
I blame sugar.
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A single CWP holder carrying that moment could have saved several if not all of their lives. If you don’t have a CWP or don’t carry, you are being negligent in your duties as a citizen.
Unless the CWP holder misses, then he’s dead and the kid as another weapon.
Imagine yourself in that church, would you want to be armed or unarmed??????????
Can we arm the choir boys in Catholic churches? Can we arm the Duggar girls?
Yes, if they are 21 have no criminal record and complete the simple class.
21? Damn. Guess Josh wins this time.
I’d prefer an armed law enforcement officer.
they can’t be everywhere all the time.
The only person that can be everywhere all the time is God, but…
Since there is no such thing as god….
How many times you pull ole Faithful out and nail a bad guy with a gun. I’m guessing 0, but enlighten me – maybe I’m wrong.
Yeah, but what happens when they aren’t around , as seems to be the case when most murders are committed?
I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.
How many bad guys with guns you stop to date?
I don’t know if they had guns or not, but on at least two occasions, three persons apparenly with ill intent towards me have been disuaded from taking whatever plan they had any further, in part, because I was armed. My late father averted what at best would likely been a bad beating by two guys who approached him in a no facilites rest stop. They approached him after walking around his parked car and commenting out loud, “looks like somebody has money”, as he stood relieving himself in the tree line. They asked if he had any money when he emerged from the woods after finished relieving himself. He replied that he did not, to which one asked what if they shook him down. Dad showed them his nickel plated .357 revolver and added his own “what if” that involved him blowing their guts across the rest area parking lot. Needless to say, they and their accomplice/lookout/driver left the rest area wiyh all due haste. Dad went home in one piece.
Imagine yourself at a grocery store. Imagine yourself driving down the road. Imagine yourself at the mall. Imagine yourself at a movie theater. Imagine yourself at the doctor’s office. Imagine yourself in a classroom.
Most citizens imagine themselves unarmed in all of those instances because they are unarmed, every day. Please don’t assume that we are all bad citizens for not wanting a gun strapped to us 24/7/365.
I’m not saying you are bad, just negligent. I know you can’t carry everywhere but how many armed robberies occur at doctors offices? they happen at gas stations, pharmacys and retail store and restaurant parking lots. That’s where you should be carrying.
Guns require responsibility, if someone decides they don’t want to deal with that level of responsibility they are not negligent. There are a lot of bad gun owners who are negligent. We see that on the news all the time when their kid gets into their gun cabinet and shoots themselves. That is negligence. Choosing not to own a gun to eradicate that kind of risk is not negligence, it’s being a good citizen.
Bringing a gun out in public is an even higher level of responsibility, so if someone chooses they don’t want to have to worry about that responsibility they are also being a good citizen. I’d rather have a responsibly armed person than ten irresponsibly armed people.
A single CWP holder carrying that moment could have been shot first and rendered no help to the situation at all. CWP also does not arbitrarily grant someone the right to carry into a church.
SECTION 23-31-215. Issuance of permits.
(M) A permit issued pursuant to this section does not authorize a permit holder
to carry a concealable weapon into a:
(9) church or other established religious sanctuary unless express permission is given by the appropriate church official or governing body;
You’re an idiot
Thanks for admitting you have no rebuttal.
It’s just not worth my time to argue with a dumbass.
What are we arguing? That a CWP holder might not be a valiant hero, but simply another victim? Or the fact that a CWP holder does not have an explicit right to carry a gun into a church without express permission? I’m not certain you are intelligent enough to know what to argue.
I’m stating a fact, not arguing. If an armed citizen had been there, there is a greater possibility that it could have been beneficial. Yes, I agree anything could have gone wrong, but not much more wrong that what actually happened. CWP holders across the country have stopped violent crimes, it’s not widely reported.
Could have. Exactly. It could have also had no effect. It could also have a negative effect if the CWP holder accidentally shot someone while missing the shooter, or if the shooter shot and killed the CWP holder and took his gun as an extra weapon.
I get that a CWP holder can shoot a bad guy, but thinking that a CWP means automatic tragedy aversion is childish. If no one there wanted anything to do with having a gun on them at all times that is their choice. Demeaning people for not being gun nuts is retarded.
It gives an otherwise defenseless person a fighting chance. That’s all. If you choose to be defenseless, that’s up to you. no one will ever read my name in the news as being a victim..
It’s like this.. Get a CWP, Get armed, Get expressed permission if and where necessary, or… take the chance of being the victim of a violent crime. It’s up to you. The state has given every eligible citizen the tools to protect themselves, the police obviously are not your babysitter. Use the tools given to you or suffer the potential consequences. I feel really bad for those victims and at the same time think that they if they had taken just a tiny bit of time to protect themselves this whole tragedy could have been avoided.
So you’re saying because the people weren’t armed it’s their fault they died? As I’ve said before, having a gun doesn’t mean you win. Having a gun means you might have a shot at taking the guy out, but it also means having a shot at just ending up as another corpse on the floor anyways.
Not everyone feels like they need to carry a gun with them everywhere at every time. If you are that paranoid good for you but not every person should have a gun. Having a gun is a responsibility and if someone is willing to admit they don’t want that responsibility then good on them, they shouldn’t be shat on for admitting they don’t want to mess with guns. Get over yourself.
If you know any law enforcement officers, ask them this question: Have you ever investigated or are aware of a violent crime that was carried out in which the victim was armed?
Having a gun makes you immortal now? Ok, got it.
Might want to ask if they’ve ever had a fellow officer die. Pretty sure officers are armed.
Doesn’t make you immortal, gives you a fighting chance. That’s all.
JFK was shot in the head while under heavy armed guard.
As I stated elsewhere today, Legislators like Jay Lucas, Larry Martin, Greg Hembree, and Mike Pitts have created or kept churches as Gun Free Zones, ensuring that law abiding citizens in those venues are kept defenseless from this kind of barbaric attack. Almost 100% of these type crimes (mass shootings) take place in Gun Free Zones, and I don’t believe for one second that it is coincidence. Cruds like the one responsible don’t want to risk being interrupted In the process of running up their casualty count.
Cruds like the one who committed this atrocity can give thanks to those afore-mentioned legislators and their kind for keeping good people off balance while they (cruds) do as they please, where they please, and when they please.
Seriously, if someone is going to commit murder or mass murder, does anyone really believe another few months or even years worth of sentence will stop them from bringing a gun with which to do it?
The only ones impacted by such stupid laws are the law-abiding, and they are not a reason to worry.
One would think that the person/people who cut this guy’s high maintenance hairstyle on a regular basis will be able to easily identify him.
He’s going for the Moe Howard look.
Or, he never outgrew the haircut he’s had since pre-school.
There are still little boys with that haircut all over the state.
I was thinking Franciscan monk.
Is that his hair? I thought that was a Ivy cap or Beret maybe? If that is hair, it is the most organized, straight, hair I’ve ever seen and I would agree.
The TV has been describing it as a ‘bowl cut’. So, they must think it’s his hair.
Dorothy Hamill is a racist killer?
Its a wig. His head underneath is cut very close.
He’s got something on his nose it appears as well.
A booger, maybe?
:-)
Glad to see this guy called a killer instead of shooter. The liberal media erroneously calls them shooters thereby insinuating that all shooters are killers. It enhances their agenda. With churches being a “gun free zone” it makes it easy to injure many more. We will never know how this would have turned out with a well armed congregation.
Ah yes, the liberal media. Great time to play that card. Give it a rest for one day, Pops.
Why in the fucking hell will the Police not just say what kind of car it is??????? Its looks like a TOYOTA. With image editing programs, you can easily make out the details!!!!!! This crime is being poorly handled. They are reacting instead of responding to it.
Turns out it’s a Hyundai. If it is so easy you would’ve been able to figure that out, right?
No, he’s the shooter trying to throw people off his trail.
You have a president who has waged a campaign of racial hatred for more than 6 years. Hate begets hate. I’m really not sure why anyone is surprised at the heinous, animalistic and evil act.
The campaign of hate for the last six years has been from the Right. Just listen to nut job radio.
Oh, but watch Rush, and Hannity, and Levin, and Laura Inbred all line up today and say what a horrible tragedy it is. Then tomorrow go back to “blacks is taken’ over Amerika.”
Shouldn’t be too hard to find this asshole…..who the fuck has a bowl cut nowadays?
People wearing wigs?
True, could be a skinhead wearing that f’ed up wig to throw everyone off.
or even just closely cropped hair…it also appears he has something on his nose(unless it’s vid distortion/lighting)
Welp, looks like I was wrong. He was actually sporting a bowl/Moe/monk haircut…first sign of mental illness to me. Remeber the elementary school shooter sported the same?
Social outcast….indicator of bigger problems.
The motive for the shootings appears to be related to all the racism dished out by the Obama administration, Ferguson riots, Baltimore riots, Al Sharptons rants and hate for white people …. its right here >>>> ‘You Rape Our Women And You’re Taking Over Our Country, You Have To Go’… the killer made these statements …. its on Drudge Report now.
Shut up. A sick kid goes into an AME Church in one of the most honorable southern cities and does this – and you want to blame Obama? Hey @SShole, maybe you’re the shooter. Give us your location and we’ll be right over.
The FBI is taking a complaint on you as I type this.
I’m sure the FBI is reading all of this as they probably have someone on constant Pogo surveillance. I don’t care for the stuff the NSA is doing but keeping an eye on the mentally deranged like you is probably for the best.
Rocky is going away for a while. Nobody will miss him.
Bite you? No thanks, I don’t want to catch your crazy. Have you been to Charleston recently? Just asking.
Poor Rocky. He might not do well in jail. I think I will report him too. Anyone have the phone number to the SC FBI Field Office in Columbia?
Hmmm, didn’t answer my question about Charleston. I think we know what that means Pogo.
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I think Pogo is speaking in tongues now or something, yep, he’s insane. What’s that tip line number again?
You know, even though it’s “black helicopter” shit, I really don’t doubt the Feds, across multiple agencies, watch this site-focusing on the comment section.
They’ve got tons of money to sit around and do nothing but peep on everyone here all day anyway in the name of “safety” and so that’s that.
It used to bother me, but I’ve settled in to the fact. Fuck em’.
Look at it this way Tango, at least being an @SShole isn’t illegal – else you’d already be getting corn holed.
Southern Baptists: We won’t obey gay marriage decision…
The car the shooter was driving is a 2004 to 2007 Toyota. But the police will not say this. The photos and the emblem … its a Toyota
They’ve said it was a Hyundai Elantra – so I guess you’re judgement is questionable, or simply you’re the shooter and trying to throw people off your trail.
I guess we can start calling Pogo Dylann now.
Toyota? Nope, Hyundai. Maybe that’s why police didn’t say so quickly, because a fool opens his mouth when a wise man would keep it shut.
More religion killings … Elderly Buddhist Monk Repeatedly Stabbed By Fellow Monk At CA Monastery…
‘He Was Attacking Him With 2 Butcher Knives, Just Chopping Him Up’…
The DailyMail has excellent coverage.