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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Another “known wolf”.
Sooooooo, this guy has known about this for 6 months and said nothing to no one? Can you say accessory?
Hmmm
Perfect opening post!
Almost my exact thought. Big thanks pal. Accessory?
so the roommate knew about this for 6 months? Gee, might have been useful to mention something to someone.
WHO IS CHARLESTON CHURCH SHOOTING SUSPECT DYLANN ROOF?
See you don't see him grin or smile just as he's loaded into the patrol car.
A libertarian, live and let live, not my business...
He's going to need that good luck. Should have kept his mouth shut, seeing as how he didn't at least tell the parents about their boy's intentions. The only other way out (which he's closed off) is to claim he took the threats as typical idle/pissed chatter - no real intention, just blowing off steam.
I don't see Dalton in any legal trouble, he didn't assist or else he WOULD have kept his mouth shut, and there is no general (legal) duty to protect society from malcontents. But on a moral level, if he really thought the killer was serious, he can't just "let it pass."
Good God. And he said nothing. Unbelievable.
Isn't this Misprision of a Felony? I think this roommate may have just gotten himself a prison sentence.
And yet this roommate never once thought about reporting this?
This idiot should be charged with accessory to murder.
Neither did Holmes’ psychiatrist. Neither did Cho’s English Professor. Neither did Hassan’s co-workers.
We can safely assume the white shooter doesn’t self identify as being black.
Looks like he’s a follower of Charles Manson. Wonder if he wrote letters to him!
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