Tennessee Church Shooter Left Note Referencing Retaliation For Dylann Roof And Charleston Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — A note found in the car of a man charged with spraying deadly gunfire at a Tennessee church made reference to revenge for a white supremacist’s massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, two years earlier, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
The note could offer a glimpse into Emanuel Kidega Samson’s mindset at the time of Sunday’s shooting and a possible motive for the rampage, which killed a woman and wounded six other people. The Associated Press has not viewed the note, but it was summarized in an investigative report circulating among law enforcement. Two officials read to AP from the note.
The report said that “in sum and in no way verbatim,” the note referenced revenge or retaliation for Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine black worshippers at a South Carolina church in 2015 and has since been sentenced to death. It wasn’t clear what precisely Samson is alleged to have written about the Roof shooting, or whether his note contained other important details that might also speak to a motivation or state of mind.
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I believe the entire hate crime concept should be eliminated. Does it make any difference to the victim if the perpetrator hated them or not? If a black man kills another black man is it any different than a black man killing a white man and saying I hate whites?
Ditto !
I agree. Thought crimes should not be prosecuted.
It's a sad state of affairs when you can hate someone so much that you emulate them
Sorry Islamaphobes......no soup for you!
This guy left a note that it was retaliation for Dillan Roof shooting up a church..... so he shoots up a church? What kind of window licking logic is that?