2.1.1 Website and handwritten documents. On April 10, 2017, Roof was sentenced to nine consecutive sentences of life without parole after formally pleading guilty to state murder charges. In return, he accepted a sentence of life in prison without parole. On March 31, 2017, Roof agreed to plead guilty in South Carolina state court to all state charges pending against him-nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony-to avoid a second death sentence. On December 15, 2016, Roof was convicted in federal court of all 33 federal charges (including hate crimes) against him stemming from the shooting on January 11, 2017, he was sentenced to death for those crimes. He also claimed in the manifesto to have developed his white supremacist views after reading about the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin and black-on-white crime. The website contained photos of Roof posing with symbols of white supremacy and neo-Nazism, along with a manifesto in which he outlined his views toward black people, among other groups. Three days after the shooting, a website titled The Last Rhodesian was discovered and later confirmed by officials to be owned by Roof. Roof's actions in Charleston have been widely described as domestic terrorism. He later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war. 
After several people identified Roof as the main suspect, he became the center of a manhunt that ended the morning after the shooting with his arrest in Shelby, North Carolina. During a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crimeĩ consecutive life sentences without the possibility of paroleĭylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, in the U.S. Use of a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in death (18 U.S.C. Obstruction of religious exercise involving an intent to kill using a weapon (18 U.S.C.
Obstruction of religious exercise resulting in death (18 U.S.C. Hate crimes involving an intent to kill (18 U.S.C. Hate crimes resulting in death (18 U.S.C. White supremacy, neo-Nazism, desire to start an ethnic conflict, anti-black racism, belief in the white genocide conspiracy theory Perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting
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