The white man who killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, told his victims he was there "to shoot black people," a law enforcement official said Thursday, citing witnesses to the shooting. The suspect, identified as Dylann Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina spent an hour in a prayer meeting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night before he opened fire. The suspect stood up and said he was there "to shoot black people."
A picture of him on social media showed him wearing a jacket with what appear to be the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and nearby Rhodesia, a former British colony that was ruled by a white minority until it became independent in 1980 and changed its name to Zimbabwe.
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