Dylann Roof (b. April 3, 1994) was a right-wing terrorist who was accused of murdering nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. 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.
Roof was charged with nine counts of murder, and the current governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley is trying to push for his execution.