News 19 June 2015
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Author: Marisa Lee

Charleston AME church shooting victim uploads snapchat just before death

Author Marisa Lee
19 June 2015
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This eerie video shows part of a snapchat story that the youngest victim of the Emmanuel AME Church shooting uploaded very soon before the nine killings occurred. The image from Tywanza Sanders’ story shows the bible study group, where suspected shooter Dylann Storm Room sits at the table the group invited him to join.

The 21-year-old has been arrested at a traffic stop in North Carolina.

Most of the participants and all of the victims at the bible study are black, but Dylann who sits at the end of the table is white. Friends of Sanders have confirmed the video is Sanders’ and say that the white man seen is Roof.

The people in the group welcomed Roof to sit with them before he turned his gun on them after being there for an hour.

“I didn’t notice until now that Dylann was just a few people away from Wanza,” one friend told Mashable after showing them the clip. “You can slightly see him in the right corner of the screenshot.”

According to the Charleston Post and Courier, one female survivor told her family that the gunman said he was letting her live so she could report what happened.

Roof received the .45 Calibre pistol for his birthday. Police have labelled the incident as a hate crime and he has been arrested.