Tells friends he is going to kill
Roof tells his friends at a trailer park close to where he lives that he is “looking to kill a bunch of people on Wednesday” at the College of Charleston. However, they do not take him seriously due to his deadpan sense of humor. Friend:
He flat out told us he was going to do this stuff. He’s weird. You don’t know when to take him seriously and when not to.
Tresspassing arrest
Roof is arrested for tresspassing after showing up in the parking lot of the Columbiana Center Mall. His ban from the mall is extended to three years.
Gets gun for birthday
4 CommentsRoof’s father gives him a .45 caliber gun for his 21st birthday. However, other reports say he was given money by his father, which he used to buy a gun. According to his uncle, the gun delighted him:
He said, ‘I got to go, I’m outside shooting target practice right now. He sounded happy about it.
Sullivan’s Island visit
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Roof is photographed wearing the flags of Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa in front of a sign marking Sullivan’s Island, just south of Charleston. The island was the entry point for 40 percent of the slaves brought to North America, according to the National Parks Service.
Drug arrest, banned from mall
Security guards at Columbiana Centre mall call police after Roof asks employees at a shoe store and a Bath & Body Works about how many people worked at the stores, their closing times and when the employees typically leave, according to an incident report. Roof tells the police that he was asking questions because his parents were pressuring him to get a job. The officer asks Roof is he had gotten any applications from the stores and he said he had not. When asked whether or not he has anything illegal in his possession, Roof says “no,” however a search reveals an unlabeled white bottle containing orange strips, which Roof identifies as Listerine Strips. The officer, however, does not believe him and asked again. Roof says the strips are actually Suboxone, a schedule III narcotic for which he does not have a prescription. According to the FDA, Suboxone contains the active ingredient, buprenorphine hydrochloride, which works to reduce the symptoms of opiate dependence. The officer arrested Roof and had his 2000 Hyundai Elantra towed. He is banned from the mall for a year.
Attends White Knoll High School
0 CommentsRoof attends the White knoll High School, in Lexington, SC, which has a mix of white and black students. Many of Roof’s Facebook friends are black. He is described as a “kind of wild” student, however not an outcast, and not bullied: Schoolfriend:
He used drugs heavily a lot. It was obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that…
On racist speech:
I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs. He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.
Attends Carolina Springs Middle School
0 CommentsIn eight grade Roof attends Carolina Springs Middle School, Lexington, SC.
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.