Editing Dylann Roof

|Image = Dylann Roof.jpg

|type of villain = Xenophobic Mass Shooter

|origin = Columbia, South Carolina, United States

|crimes = [[Mass murder]]<br>[[Racism]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]<br>[[Hate Speech]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Christophobia]]|motive = Racism}}

'''Dylann Roof''' (born April 3, 1994-) is a white supremacist terrorist who was convicted of murdering nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015.<ref>[https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/charleston-church-massacre-2015/ The Charleston Church Massacre (2015)], ''Blackpast''</ref> Of those killed were Clementa C. Pinckney, who was a senior pastor as well as the state senator of South Carolina. Roof shot another individual at the church, but that would-be victim survived. He later stated that his goal was to incite a race war.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/no-regrets-from-dylann-roof-in-jailhouse-manifesto.html No Regrets From Dylann Roof in Jailhouse Manifesto], ''The New York Times''</ref>

Roof was born in Columbia, South Carolina. His father, Franklin Bennett, divorced his stepmother, Paige Mann, ten years prior to the shooting at the Charleston church. Roof went to several schools, but he eventually dropped out, and he took to playing video games and doing drugs. He also alternated between living with Bennett and with Mann.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/us/charleston-shooting-dylann-roof-troubled-past.html Dylann Roof’s Past Reveals Trouble at Home and School], ''The New York Times''</ref>

According to a former high school classmate of Roof's, he had several friends who were black, and he never expressed any disdain for them. However, it was believed that Roof had been planning something like the upcoming shooting for months.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charleston-shooter-profile-20150618-story.html Dylann Roof: Minor crimes, ‘creepy’ behavior, talk of ‘Southern pride’], ''The Los Angeles Times''</ref>

On the evening of June 17, 2015, a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] broke out in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church during a routine bible study. The shooter, later identified as Roof, apparently lived in Eastover at the time of the attack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On June 20, 2015, three days after the shooting, a website called ''[[The Last Rhodesian]]'' was discovered and was later confirmed to be owned by Roof.<ref>[https://www.nydailynews.com/news/shocking-photos-dylann-storm-roof-gallery-1.2265282 Shocking photos of Dylann Storm Roof from 'Last Rhodesian' website], ''New York Daily News''</ref> The website contained his racist views, along with a manifesto in which he outlined his views toward blacks, among other peoples. Numerous references to the [[Fourteen Words]] were found on the site. He also gives praise to [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Apartheid]], and the [[Ku Klux Klan]] on the site.<ref>[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/alleged-charleston-shooter-dylann-roof-manifesto-racist/ Dylann Roof Authored a Horrifyingly Racist Manifesto], ''Mother Jones''</ref><ref>[https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2015/0620/Beyond-Rhodesia-Dylann-Roof-s-manifesto-and-the-website-that-radicalized-him Beyond Rhodesia, Dylann Roof's manifesto and the website that radicalized him], ''The Christian Science Monitor''</ref>

 

Roof was known to have links to various [[White Power Movement|white supremacist]] websites; after reading up on articles on the [[Council of Conservative Citizens]]' website, Roof became convinced that black-on-white crime was getting out of hand.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/06/20/council-conservative-citizens-dylann-roofs-gateway-world-white-nationalism The Council Of Conservative Citizens: Dylann Roof's Gateway Into The World Of White Nationalism], ''SPLC Hatewatch''</ref> He also was reportedly a regular reader of the [[Anti-Semitism|anti-semetic]] website ''[[The Daily Stormer]]''.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/06/21/dylann-roof-may-have-been-regular-commenter-neo-nazi-website-daily-stormer Dylann Roof May Have Been A Regular Commenter At Neo-Nazi Website ''The Daily Stormer''], ''SPLC Hatewatch''</ref> Eventually this lead him to becoming radicalized and creating ''The Last Rhodesian''.