police say. they were black, the alleged shooter, white. a white witness armed with a gun told his son what the shooter said while fleeing. he said, please don t shoot or i won t shoot you. he said that whites don t kill whites. reporter: what do you think about what was said? it hurts. it s sad. it s terrible. people have the right to just exist. reporter: the suspect, police say, could have caused far more carnage. pastor kevin nelson says a parishioner saw him earlier at their church door. he bangs on it and then backs up with his hand on the gun so whoever would have opened it would have possibly gotten shot and killed. reporter: his church began locking its doors after white supremacist dylann roof entered this predominantly black church, massacring nine people as they prayed. ken parker knows something about the hate that motivated dylann roof, a navy veteran, parker
we are back now with the national lead and it s truly a sobering story. the first public words from the racist killer behind the charleston church massacre, self proclaimed white supremacist dylann roof is representing himself as the sentencing phase of had i trial begins in court. this morning he told jurors the following. there is nothing wrong with me psychologically. and then he rambled about his mental status and being misrepresented by his lawyers. roof was convicted of killing church pastor clement, parishioners, cynthia hurd, reverend dee pain middleton, sanders, simmons senior, and thompson. as roof spoke today, some court observers, they walked out calling his remarks, and i m quoting here, all crap. cnn s martin savage was in that courtroom, he joins me live now in charleston, south carolina. martin, tell us what it was like