Dylann Roof

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dylann Roof
Occupation	Criminal
Date Of Birth	Apr 3, 1994(1994-04-03)
Age	30
Birthplace	Columbia
Country	United States
Birth City	South Carolina
Horoscope	Aries

Dylann Roof Biography

Dylann Roof is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on April 3, 1994 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Suspected shooter of the 2015 Charleston church shooting who claimed to have taken the lives of nine African Americans, including a senior pastor state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. He was charged with nine counts of murder and faced the death penalty.

He claimed to have developed his white supremacist views following the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Roof was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Franklin Bennett (called Bennett) Roof, a carpenter and a construction contractor, and Amelia “Amy” Cowles, a bartender. His parents had divorced but were temporarily reconciled at the time of his birth. When Roof was five, his father married Paige Mann (née Hastings) in November 1999; they divorced after ten years of marriage. Roof has two siblings, an older half sister and a younger sister, Morgan Roof. Bennett Roof was allegedly verbally and physically abusive toward Mann. The family mostly lived in South Carolina, though from about 2005 to 2008, they temporarily moved to the Florida Keys. There is no information about Roof attending local schools there.

According to a 2009 affidavit filed for Mann’s divorce, Roof exhibited “obsessive compulsive behavior” as he grew up, obsessing over germs and insisting on having his hair cut in a certain style. When he was in middle school, he exhibited an interest in smoking marijuana, having once been caught spending money on it.

He was born in parents Franklin Bennett and Amelia Cowles, a carpenter and bartender, respectively. His parents divorced and his father remarried a woman named Paige Mann.

Dylann Roof Net Worth

Dylann Roof is one of the richest Criminal from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dylann Roof 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder growing up. He worked for his father as a landscaper for a time.

He confessed that he committed the heinous crime in order to ignite a race war. He owned a website called The Last Rhodesian which featured pictures of him with symbols of white supremacy and neo-Nazism.

Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015 in the U.S. state of South Carolina. During a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney, and injured one other person. After several people identified Roof as the main suspect, he became the center of a manhunt that ended the morning after the shooting with his arrest in Shelby, North Carolina. He later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war.

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Who is Dylann Roof Dating?

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On July 16, 2015, Roof’s trial in state court was scheduled by Circuit Court Judge J.C. Nicholson to start on July 11, 2016. On July 20, Roof was ordered to provide handwriting samples to investigators. The order explained that following his arrest in Shelby, notes and lists were found written on his hand and at other locations; that the handwriting samples were needed to determine if the handwriting matched.

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Criminal. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dylann Roof celebrates birthday on April 3 of every year.

On June 19, 2015, Roof was charged with nine counts of murder and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. He first appeared in Charleston County court by video conference at a bond hearing later that day. At the hearing, shooting survivors and relatives of five of the victims spoke to Roof directly, saying that they were “praying for his soul” and forgave him. Governor Nikki Haley called for prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Roof.

Did Dylann Roof win his appeal?

On August 25, 2021, a panel of the Fourth Circuit unanimously rejected Roof’s appeal. Upholding the death sentence, the judges wrote in their 149-page opinion that “no cold record or careful parsing of statutes and precedents can capture the full horror of what Roof did.

How old is Dylann Roof now?

28 years (April 3, 1994)

Who is Dylann Roof father?

Franklin Bennett Roof

How many died in the Charleston church shooting?

9

How long are people on death row?

Death-sentenced prisoners in the U.S. typically spend more than a decade on death row prior to exoneration or execution. Some prisoners have been on death row for well over 20 years.