Charleston Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Was a 'Loner'

The kid's an emo-prog racist loner.

He was definitely not a classic Southern red neck, and he wasn't raised that way. Frankly, he's not fitting into the left's cookie-cutter "white supremacist" narrative. They never do, in fact. Virtually all the mass shooters in recent years have been leftists, to the one.

At the Wall Street Journal, "Charleston Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Became a Loner in Recent Years":

@mikepfingston2 The suspect's an emo progressive nerd freak. No RWNJ. @Rockprincess818 @RepRutherford @FoxNews

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 19, 2015

About a month ago, Dylann Roof’s family was concerned. The once-quiet, bright boy from a middle-class South Carolina family was espousing troubling racist views.

“He apparently told people that he was involved in groups, racist groups,” said a woman who said she was the mother of Mr. Roof’s former stepmother. “He was kind and sweet and polite to my daughter. He didn’t even want her to know what kind of things he was doing. She told him she didn’t approve.”

Mr. Roof, 21 years old, was the son of a contractor, did well in school in early years and loved animals, his relative said. But he stopped going to high school and was adrift, she said.

“He turned into a loner in the last couple of years and no one knew why,” she said. “He just fell off the grid somehow,” she said. The woman was reached at the home of Mr. Roof’s former stepmother, who couldn’t be reached to comment.

Mr. Roof repeated ninth grade at White Knoll High School in Lexington, S.C., and left in 10th grade in February 2010, a spokeswoman for Lexington County School District One said. A month later, Mr. Roof enrolled as a ninth-grade student at Dreher High School in Columbia, S.C., according to Richland County School District One. He attended through May of 2010 but didn’t return, a district official said.

Police said Mr. Roof fatally shot nine people who had gathered Wednesday evening at a historic black Charleston church for a prayer meeting. They called the shooting a hate crime and said Mr. Roof had shouted antiblack sentiments at his victims.

He was arrested Thursday in Shelby, N.C. Mr. Roof’s last known address was in Eastover, S.C., a rural community about 15 miles southeast of Columbia, the state capital. The property has two homes, and people at both homes declined to comment.

Mr. Roof lived off and on with his father, Ben Roof, in Columbia, a family friend said. He described the father as a hard-working, friendly, churchgoing man who had recently expressed concerns about his son’s lack of direction, the friend said. He was trying to get his son to be productive, to stop playing as many video games and stay employed, said the friend.

The friend described the suspect as a lanky young man who looked younger than his age, and a loner who rarely smiled. “You could see that he was troubled,” he said.

The elder Mr. Roof has a racially diverse set of friends, and wouldn’t have taught his son racial intolerance, the friend said. “There are African-Americans over at that home all the time,” he said.

Police blocked off the Columbia street where the elder Mr. Roof lives, and he couldn’t be reached for comment.

Dylann Roof was acting suspiciously in the months before the shooting, according to a police report. On Feb. 28, he was arrested for drug possession at a Columbia mall, where the report said he was wearing all black and rattling employees at two stores with unusual questions about staffing and operating hours.

In the incident report, the arresting officer said Mr. Roof was nervous and said his parents were pressuring him to get a job, though he acknowledged he hadn’t asked for an application from the stores. He consented to a search, and the officer found an unlabeled bottle with multiple, orange-colored square strips in a jacket pocket, the complaint said. Mr. Roof said the strips were Listerine, but they were the pain drug Suboxone, for which he didn’t have a prescription, the report said.

Mr. Roof was released two days later from the Lexington County Detention Center on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond, said Maj. John Allard, a spokesman for the county sheriff...

And note this at the New York Times, "Dylann Roof, Charleston Suspect, Wore Symbols of White Supremacy":

On Twitter, a black woman named Kimberly Taylor who said she had gone to school with Mr. Roof wrote, “Dylann use to be a super emo, with long blonde hair and he was pretty quiet.” She was apparently referring to a type of music sometimes known as “emotional hard-core.”

Yeah, an "emotional hard-core" drug-addled Southern white supremacist loner whose father gave him a gun for his 21st birthday. Well, blow me down! FBI profilers will be stumped. Stumped I tell you!

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