Suspect Arrested in Charleston Shootings That Killed Nine

Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, center, is escorted from the Shelby Police Department in Shelby, North Carolina, on June 18, 2015.
Photographer: Chuck Burton/AP Photo

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By Michael C. Bender

June 18, 2015 at 5:02 AM UTC

Updated on

June 18, 2015 at 11:20 PM UTC

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Investigators arrested a 21-year-old white man said to have a history of racial aggression in the fatal shooting of nine people in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dylann Storm Roof of Lexington was apprehended in Shelby, North Carolina, about 245 miles (390 kilometers) northwest of the scene of the killings, Police Chief Greg Mullen said at a Thursday news conference. Federal officials are probing the shooting at Emanuel AME Church as a hate crime.