Dylann Storm Roof, the man who allegedly entered a South Carolina church last night and massacred nine people at their weekly bible study meeting, has been escorted in prison stripes onto a plane to be extradited from North Carolina.
The 21-year-old was arrested shortly before noon on Thursday in Shelby, NC, 250 miles north of the targeted church in Charleston, SC.
At 6.20pm Eastern Time he was seen in a jumpsuit, chains and a bullet-proof vest being chaperoned by dozens of armed police officers onto an airplane bound for South Carolina.
He was detained after a member of the public spotted his car and called the cops, Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said. Roof, from Columbia, was in his vehicle and armed when he was approached by an officer but he was cooperative and taken into custody. He has waived extradition in North Carolina and has been cleared to return to South Carolina.
'In America, we don't let bad people like this get away,' said Charleston Mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr. at a press conference announcing the arrest.
On Wednesday, Roof allegedly entered the church and joined the bible study group for as long as an hour before suddenly opening fire on the group.
One survivor recounted how he reloaded his gun five times as he picked off his victims - killing three females and six males, including the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who is also a South Carolina state senator.
His roommate also told ABC News that Roof had been 'planning something like that for six months'.
'He was big into segregation and other stuff,' the roommate, Dalton 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.'
they had urged Roof to stop.
'He just said: "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go",' Sylvia Johnson said.
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