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Charleston black church shooter indicted on 3 additional murder charges

Xinhua, July 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

The white shooter who had been charged of killing nine African-Americans in a racially motivated shooting spree last month in South Carolina was indicted on Tuesday on three additional murder charges, local media said.

Dylann Roof, 21, was already arrested on nine murder charges for each African-American churchgoer he allegedly killed and a charge of possessing weapons. He now also faces three attempted murder counts in the state court for three survivors of the massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17.

Local media report earlier quoted a female survivor as saying that the shooter told her that he let her live to tell others what happened that night.

According to the police, Roof stayed at a prayer meeting on June 17 for almost one hour before opening fire. A law enforcement official was quoted by the U.S. TV network CNN as saying that witnesses told them that the suspect said he was at the church "to shoot black people." Endite