{"id":126665,"date":"2015-06-20T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126665"},"modified":"2015-06-20T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:01:07","slug":"charleston-church-shooter-planned-to-attack-college-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126665","title":{"rendered":"Charleston church shooter planned to attack college first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends of the white gunman who shot and killed nine black people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina said he first talked about attacking a college campus, the Washington Post and NBC News reported on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported 22-year-old Christon Scriven, a black neighbor of gunman Dylann Roof, said that during a recent night of drinking, Roof said he wanted to open fire on a school. At another point, Roof talked about shooting up the College of Charleston, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

“My reaction at the time was, ‘You’re just talking crazy,'” Scriven told the Post. “I don’t think he’s always there.”<\/p>\n

Scriven also told NBC News that Roof may have changed his plans after deciding the college campus was a harder target to access.<\/p>\n

“He just said on Wednesday, everything was going to happen. He said they had seven days,” Scriven said to NBC News. “I just ran through my head that he did it […] Like, he really went and did what he said he was going to do.”<\/p>\n

Reuters could not verify the report as Scriven could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Roof, 21, who authorities say spent an hour in Bible study with parishioners at the nearly 200-year-old Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church before opening fire on Wednesday night, appeared via video feed before a magistrate judge who on Friday ordered him held without bond.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with nine counts of murder and a weapons offense.<\/p>\n

The attack at the church nicknamed “Mother Emanuel” for its key role in African-American history followed a wave of protests across the United States in recent months over police killings of unarmed black men, focusing attention on racial bias in the criminal justice system and renewing a civil rights movement under the banner of “Black Lives Matter.”<\/p>\n

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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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