Suspected White Supremacist Terrorist Dylann Roof Bragged Last Week He Will ‘Kill A Bunch Of People’

Dylann Roof reportedly told a friend just last week that he was going to murder people, and a roommate says he had been planning this for months.

Dylann Roof, who is being described by UK newspaper The Telegraph as a “white supremacist gunman.”

Roof had a license plate on his car of the “Confederate States of America” – not just the historical Confederacy but a group that believes it is being occupied the the U.S. government.

High school classmate John Mullins told the Daily Beast that Roof “had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs.”

“He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that,” Mullins said.

His roommate, Dalton Tyler told ABC News Roof was “planning something like that for six months.” 

“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”

He “apparently told people that he was involved in groups, racist groups,” Roof’s former stepmother’s mother told the Wall Street Journal.

His jacket in his Facebook photo has patches which are symbols of the apartheid government of South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

The Wall Street Journal spoke with “Todd Blodgett, the former co-owner of a now-defunct record label that produced hate music, said the patches were often sold at white-supremacist rallies.”

“They were sold at National Alliance, Aryan Nation, and Ku Klux Klan events,” he said. 

In both police reports, Mr. Roof gave his middle name as Storm, which is popular among white supremacists and could derive from stormfront.org, a website frequented by so-called white racialists, according to Mr. Blodgett, who said he co-owned the record label for opportunist reasons and never personally harbored racist views.

The New York Daily News reports that Roof “bragged last week about his plans to ‘kill a bunch of people,’ sources said.”

The New York paper added that Roof “told his friends at the trailer park last week that he wanted to kill people at a local college — but no one took him seriously because of his deadpan sense of humor, his friend Christon Scriven told the Daily News.”

“He flat out told us he was going to do this stuff,” said Scriven. Roof moved close to the Lexington, S.C., trailer park about two months ago, he said.

Last Wednesday — exactly one week before the Charleston church massacre — Roof told his friends and neighbors at the park that “he was looking to kill a bunch of people on Wednesday” at the College of Charleston, Scriven said. 

The friends assumed Roof, known for his dry sense of humor, was joking.

The NY Daily News, a tabloid not known for subtlety, this afternoon published a separate editorial titled, “Charleston mass murderer Dylann Roof is a homegrown American terrorist.”

Roof also reportedly told one of the three survivors, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”

All the victims who were killed were Black.

 

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