Dylann Roof guilty in Charleston church shooting

CHARLSTON, South Carolina-Dylann Roof (pictured), the professed white supremacist who confessed to fatally shooting nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, after sitting through a Bible study class, was found guilty of several charges today.

A jury of three black people and nine white people found Roof, 22, guilty of hate crimes, religious obstruction and firearms violations in the June 2015 attack, reports the Charleston Post and Courier.

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