Posted on 06/18/2015 10:30:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Law enforcement officers were at the home of Dylann Roof's mother on Thursday morning, the uncle, Carson Cowles, said in an interview.
Cowles said he recognized Roof in a photo released by police, and described him as quiet and soft-spoken. Roof's father gave him a .45-caliber pistol for his birthday this year, Cowles said.
Authorities caught up with Roof in Shelby, North Carolina, over 200 miles from the carnage he allegedly left behind, before noon on Thursday.
'Nobody in my family had seen anything like this coming,' Cowles said. 'I said, if it is him, and when they catch him, he's got to pay for this.'
He said he had told his sister, Roof's mother, several years ago that Roof was too introverted and worried he was cooped up in his room too much.
'I said he was like 19 years old, he still didn't have a job, a driver's license or anything like that and he just stayed in his room a lot of the time,' Cowles said.
A woman who answered the cellphone of the suspect's mother Amelia Roof, also known as Amy, declined to comment.
'We will be doing no interviews ever,' she said, before hanging up.
Roof, who attended White Knoll High School in Lexington, South Carolina, had in recent days befriended at least one black former classmate on the social media site, where his profile photo shows him scowling as he wears the jacket with racist emblems.
Many of Roof's older Facebook friends are black, as well.
A high school classmate of Roof's, John Mullins, told The Daily Beast that the accused white supremacist killer was 'kind of wild' and a big time prescription drug abuser.
'He used drugs heavily a lot,' Mullins said. 'It obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.'.....
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So, he gives him a .45 for his birthday?.................................
The gun wasn’t gifted by the uncle.
The dad gave him the .45....not the uncle.
His father gave him the gun. His uncle made the comment
Sounds like he was confused and didn’t know where to go with his life. Obviously he has made huge errors in judgement.
The uncle observed that and told the mother.
The father is the one who provided the gun.
“his profile photo shows him scowling as he wears the jacket with racist emblems.”
No more racist (in fact, probably less so) than any flag flown in this country when blacks could be owned as livestock. Those “emblems” are the flags of former countries; what does our media say when those at May Day parades and labor disputes wave hammer & sickle emblems?
Obviously we need to make meth and cocaine illegal, carrying guns in to churches in SC illegal, and killing people illegal.
That would have fixed everything.
Also the media has taught me black lives don’t matter until a white has taken them. How many were shot in Chicago and Baltimore last night?
Daily Beast told us he “held strong conservative beliefs”.....
Okay, got it!..................
This headline is along the right lines.
It should be psycho drug addict murders 9.
I’ll bet as a young boy he was put on psychotropic drugs by the feminazi educrats.
I am surprised the left is not saying how we should be listening to what he has to say and that they are not now calling for a 2 state solution to the South African and Rhodesia situations.
Thanks - I was going to add the full title:
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Suspected race-hate killer, 21, is a meth and cocaine-using pill popper who got a gun for his birthday, proudly wears apartheid flags and has a Confederate license plate”
Who gives a loner stoner with no drivers license a .45 for his birthday? How about giving him a job application instead?
I wonder if the dad set up the whole thing.
No license, no job, no education after high school. What exactly was the career plan of this punk? These drugs that he took as part of his lifestyle....who paid for these? Something about this story doesn’t add up. What’s he been doing for three years....just gaming the whole time?
If this guy was living AT HOME, these people should have not been giving him s**t!
Doesn’t this dork have a job?
Bingo, line 11E about drug use. Never mind he was heading for a felony conviction on possession from bust in February.
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