Nine killed at prayer meeting
A gunman kills six women and three men, at a bible study group at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Victims include Reverend Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor, who was a Democratic member of the State Senate. The gunman arrives at the church and asks for the pastor, the Rev. Pinckney, and sits among parishioners during a Bible study meeting. At the conclusion of Bible study , the gunman opens fire on the gathering, wounding several people, including the pastor. A survivor says the gunman reloads five different times and that her son was trying to “talk him out of doing the act of killing people,” but he does not listen. The shooter says to the group:
You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.
Eight people are killed inside the church and one more dies at the hospital soon after the incident. Three people survive. Police are still searching for the suspected shooter – a clean-shaven white male about 21 years of age. He is reportedly wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots.
Father’s second divorce
Mann and Franklin Roof’s divorce is finalized. Before the divorce Franklin hires a private investigator, who discovers Mann is having a relationship with another man. Mann gets custody of Morgan and Franklin must pay $570 per month in child support.
Father beats wife
According to an affidavit filed by Mann, Roof’s father beat her.
My whole world fell apart when Benn and I got into an argument. Benn violently pushed me to the ground and hit me in the back of my head…I was so scared of him that I knew I had to get out of this violent situation
Franklin takes the credit card that Paige has been using to pay the grocery bills –her only source of income — and says he is cutting off the electricity and taking his car.
Sister born
0 0 Mark Devlin Mark Devlin2015-06-20 14:04:032015-06-20 14:05:21Sister bornFather remarries
Roof’s father Franklin (known as “Benn”) marries Paige Mann in Florida, when they were living together in Columbia, South Carolina. Dylann is four years old, and his half-sister Amber is 11. Mann:
[I] raised (Franklin’s) kids from a very young age, took them to all of their activities, and Benn’s kids have spent almost every weekend with me. After we moved to Florida our marriage really began to deteriorate when Benn became so controlling…Benn travels a great deal, usually four days a week, so I would always care for and raise his kids.
Mann tries working at Sears but Franklin says he wants her to be a stay-at-home mom, so she quits. Despite her reluctance, he moves the family to the Florida Keys, away from her friends and family.
After we moved to Florida our marriage really began to deteriorate when Benn became so controlling. He controlled my whereabouts, the checkbook and everything about my life.
Mann’s mother writes that her daughter ‘loved Bennett Roof’s other children Amber and Dylann unconditionally as her own’. Dylann stayed with Mann and Franklin far more often than with his own mother, who was supposed to have him every other weekend,
I was afraid that love for these children clouded her judgement in getting involved with Bennett Roof. Paige was there for Amber and Dylann on the occasions where their own (mother) chose not to be, including church, driving Dylann to and from school and extracurricular activities.
Dylann Roof born
0 0 Mark Devlin Mark Devlin2015-06-18 16:11:342015-06-20 13:24:43Dylann Roof bornParents divorce
After splitting up in June, 1990, Roof’s parents finalize their divorce due to financial issues. Judge:
The Court inquired as to the possibility of reconciliation between the parties, but concluded that such was not possible.
Parents marry
Dylann Roof’s parents, Franklin Bennett Roof and Amy Coles Roof, get married. Amy is five months pregnant. Their daughter, Amber, is born four months later in June.