*Dylann Roof, already facing more than a dozen charges in the ruthless shooting spree that killed nine black worshippers in a Charleston, S.C., church, will now have a federal hate crime charge added to the list.
Roof currently faces nine counts of murder, along with attempted murder and weapons charges. His trial on those charges is set to begin next summer.
The hate-crime indictment comes a month after photos and a racist manifesto were found on a website that appears to have been set up by Roof, the 21-year-old who was arrested the day after the mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
Reporting on the pending indictment today, the Charleston Post and Courier notes, “South Carolina is one of only five states that does not have a hate crimes law, despite some legislators’ repeated attempts to change that.”
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