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Police apprehend dylan roof without drwaing a gun.
Fbi director james comey says roof the.
Despite having previously admitted to drug possession the man dylann roof 21 was allowed to buy the 45 caliber handgun because of mistakes by f b i.
Police arrested him without incident.
Police records in columbia the state capital show that roof also faces charges of narcotics possession in neighboring lexington county after he was arrested in a feb.
Police credit a local florist debbie dills as being the one who tipped them off to roof s car helping bring roof into custody after an intense nearly daylong manhunt.
He has been charged with nine counts of murder in a mass shooting inside the emanuel african methodist episcopal church in charleston south carolina last wednesday.
A stunning heartbreaking admission from the fbi director about last month s massacre in the south carolina church the accused killer dylan roof should not have been able to buy a gun.
Burris and five other officers closed in on the hyundai as well.
Bernat yelled for roof to put his hands on the steering wheel as he approached with his gun drawn.
In this june 18 2015 file photo charleston s c shooting suspect dylann storm roof center is escorted from the sheby police department in shelby n c.
A jailhouse clerical blunder was one of several oversights that permitted dylann roof to buy the weapon he used to gun down nine people in a south carolina church last month authorities said.
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Dylann roof 21 was apprehended by shelby police on thursday.