Jake tapper is off today. Today moments ago we saw and heard from dylann roof for the first time in court. Whats your age . 21. 21 years old. Are you employed . Knolls. Youre unemployment at this time . Yes, sir. Those pictures from inside court barely more than an hour ago, you see the its draping loosely, showing no visible emotion throughout the entire hearing. He only ever glances up for more than a few seconds when answering simple prompts this happens a day after karl stone cried in confusion, crying to comprehend how the congregation welcomed this man to the sapgt wear, and he thanked them by turning the church into a shooting gallery. Now from the same Court Hearing weve heard from some family members of the de parted including a survivor whose son was slain where le stood inside that church. Your name man. Felicia sanders. Thank you, ms. Sanders for being here. We welcomed you wednesday night in our bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most is beautifulest p
Why did you do it . Behind bars the alleged mass murderer accused of killing nine people at an historic africanamerican church in charleston, South Carolina. This cell phone video captured moments before shows roof sitting at a table with a small bible study group. The 21yearold inside for about an hour before hoping fire. One of the survivors pleaded with the gunman to stop. After the young man tried to stop him from doing what he wanted to finish off. He said, no you are taking over the country. After the massacre roof fled the scene. 14 hours later it was god who made this happen. Reporter a floral shop owner spots the alleged shooter more than 200 miles away in North Carolina. Following roof until Police Arrested him without incident. God heard the prayers of the people and used us to get his work done. Reporter he was quote, big into segregation, alleging he was plotting this for six months. His childhood friend tells the network he wanted to make something spark up the race war a
Im sorry if what happened. I know things will get better as time goes on. I want to thank you for reaching out to me. An impressive young man. And tim jackson lost his 87yearold grandother mother. Its hard to process. Its really, really hard. Its challenging because i dont believe that she deserved to kind of go this way. And the pastor is him remembered as a force in that community. He is the leader that brought the zeal and energy to our church and he will be extremely missed in this community and especially as a leader of our church. An amazing person. The nation and Law Enforcement now turning their full focus on the case at hand of this alleged shooter. Last night we learned from a woman who spoke to one of the survivor that the killer allegedly allowed one woman to live so that she tell his story. He told one of the elderly members, he asked did i shoot you and he said no. He asked her if he had shot her . Yes. And she said no. And he said good. Because we need a survivor because
It wasnt me. It was god. He used me as a vesvessel. If anybody is a hero it is him. It was through him that everybody happened. I asked long time mayor joe riley about dills this morning. What did he think about debbie dis. Heres his response. Well, its a wonderful american story. When we got that go i in custody, an automobile gasp of relief was heard in our community and in peoples hearts. Nbcs adam riess is joining me now. Lets talk about the arraignment and whats going to happen. Its ironic and amazing it must be a really small jail because hes actual he in the cell next to the officer accused of killing walter scott. Now, the bond hearing will be in about an hour from now. Very short hearing. We expect they will probably not even be considered because hes a flight risk and hes also a threat to these. The governor calling for the Death Penalty. Hes charged with nine counts of murder, plus one count of criminal possession of a weapon. We expect it to be very brief and video length.
Im melindaaine linelinda prann. Im leyland vitt tertert. This morning the Charleston Church that had been the scene of such horror and satness opened its doors to worshippers for sundays service. A sellout crowd brought fans with them to stave off the heat in charleston with emmanuels pastor among those killed. Reverend goff took to the pull pet remembering the nine lives cut short and offering a message of healing and thanks. I want to say thank you to Law Enforcement. I have no problem in doing that. I want to thank them. I want to thank them. I want to thank oh, yeah. Reverend chris darwin preaches at Second Presbyterian Church which is one block away from emanuela. M. E. Reverend i appreciate you being with us. What struck everyone is this message of hope and forgiveness and healing that is coming out when so often we have seen in this country messages of anger that come out of tragedies like this. You know its something we get to do. Charleston they call it the holy city. It seems