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Charleston white suspect charged with nine counts of murder

20 June 2015 02:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The young white gunman who shot nine black people dead in the US state of South Carolina has been charged with nine counts of homicide and illegal possession of a firearm, APA reports quoting Press TV.

During his first court appearance on Friday, Dylann Storm Roof confessed to the crime, two law enforcement officials told CNN.

The 21-year-old suspect was arrested in North Carolina on Thursday.

Roof killed the black people during a prayer ceremony at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday night.

Roof's roommate, Dalton Tyler, said that Roof was planning to start a “civil war.”

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