Prosecutors to play confession in church shooting trial

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Mass killer Dylann Roof marched into a SC church with a Glock handgun and a “cold and hateful heart” when he executed nine black parishioners, a prosecutor charged Wednesday.

Her granddaughter, who was with her, said, “Granny I’m so scared”.

She and other CSI officers searched specific areas to photograph and log evidence.

Her aunt, who was near her, was also hit by gunfire.

He said he would have few questions for prosecution witnesses. Previous information presented on Wednesday indicated the shooter had a total of 88 bullets.

Over the next eight or nine hours, investigators worked through the night collecting about 117 pieces of evidence – including cartridge cases, bullets and bullet fragments, magazines, a black messenger bag and a belt, Burke said. But on the floor, bodies of the victims and pools of blood.

On Thursday, jurors saw stark 360-degree photographs of the crime scene in the church’s fellowship hall.

Roof represented himself in court for about a week during jury selection.

Roof is seen leaving the church 52 minutes later and driving off. And then she went on to say, there is no place on Earth for him except the pit of hell. She said she thought it was a machine gun.

Roof also appeared to have his eyes closed throughout Sanders’ testimony. The group in attendance said “yes” to Roof, and Sen.

Jurors were also shown surveillance footage of Roof as he left the church holding a.45 Glock semi-automatic handgun.

The young black man countered: “You don’t have to do this”.

Meyers told the jurors when he asked Roof if there was anything in the auto that could harm law enforcement, Roof replied,”There’s a gun in the vehicle”.

Next it was the defense’s turn to cross-examine Sanders. Two years before that, the government executed Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing and Juan Raul Garza for murdering three men.

Jurors in the Charleston church shooting trial have viewed dashcam video from two police cruisers showing the apprehension of Dylann Roof.

When Sanders again took the stand, Bruck objected to her use of the word “evil” and similar phrases, a move prosecutors opposed for coming too late because the issue was not raised immediately. “I feel bad at that”, Sanders said, her voice cracking at her memory of her friend’s plans to leave.

Bruck said that given Sanders’ emotional testimony, he was hesitant to interrupt with an objection.

Some of the survivors played dead.

ELLIOTT: So far, we’ve had the testimony of Ms. Sanders and then police officers who responded to the case.

He hurled racial insults, telling the parishioners he was killing them because he wanted a war between whites and blacks because blacks were raping white women and taking over the country, authorities said.

As she lay there, her son, Tywanza, was on one side of her and Jackson, her aunt, was on the other, both of them shot.

Polly Sheppard, a retired nurse, was on the ground praying. In a manifesto found later, he said he hoped to start a race war. Several people sitting among the survivors’ family members and several jurors dabbed away tears. He was taken into custody in Shelby, North Carolina, the day after the shooting.

The 33 federal counts against Roof include hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of exercise of religion resulting in death. Tsarnaev, the newest addition to the federal death row, is being held at the federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, according to the Bureau of Prisons.