Posted on 06/18/2015 2:09:14 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The roommate of the white, 21-year old man who allegedly massacred nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina said Thursday that he thought the suspect had been planning the attack for about six months.
Dalton Tyler told ABC News that he'd known Dylann Storm Roof for about seven months to a year. Tyler told the news outlet that he last saw Roof about a week ago and knew he'd been planning something like the Charleston church attack "for six months."
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler told ABC News. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
Tyler described Roof as "on and off" with his parents, according to ABC News. Members of Roof's immediate family have not given extensive comment on his alleged crime.
A woman who on Thursday answered a cellphone belonging to Roof's mother, Amelia, told Reuters "We will be doing no interviews ever."
A reporter for the Post And Courier newspaper tweeted that a man who answered the door at Roof's Eastover, South Carolina home declined to speak with reporters and told them get off his property.
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Makes you wonder how many more Dalton Tyler’s there are out there, knowing there’s a ticking time-bomb waiting to go off, but saying nothing.
Except that the guy's name is Dylann.
Guess he didn’t believe in, “If You See Something, Say Something.”
Probably not. He has to have had the same purpose, or contribute. Keeping quiet is not contribution. There is no general (legal) duty to the public, to rat out a suspicion.
Telling his parents? They are 21 year old men. Dalton should have gone to the cops if he thought he was serious.
But, really, how many 21 year olds out there talk sh!t and nothing comes of it.
IQ of a potted plant. Either stupid or in agreement with the planning.
Accessory or fool?
21 years old and stupid. They don’t pay attention to anything.
How much planning does it take to walk into a church and kill as many people as you can?
Unfortunately, this is a key reason why not only gun control but gun confiscation is sadly going to gain even more popularity in the future. With this story we even have an ideal angle in that if you do not support more gun laws after this, clearly you are a racial separatist who wants black people to pay the price for your guns.
Those of us who feel the second amendment is not merely a polite suggestion will tragically have some real challenges in countering this.
ummm, you might want to read the article again.
Don’t want to be judgemental, don’t ‘cha know.
That flak vest has a lot of gaps.
That kid is 21? Really? Is he castrated or something?
Exactly what I was thinking but in most states its not illegal to not prevent or report a crime. Tyler will have the blood of those 9 on his hands.
Misprision
Neat word.
Well, the perp certainly didn’t off himself. He ran (drove).
>>How much planning does it take to walk into a church and kill as many people as you can?
A lot more than the usual “walk in, shoot the place up, wait for the cops, kill yourself” plan that most of these nutjobs make.
LOL what about as a woman?
I know. Looks like he’s 14.
I heard on Fox News that he was on Prescription Drugs...HELLO!!!
He knew for six months this monster was going to do something horrible and he said NOTHING gee thanks for nothing schmuck
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