Man accused of church killings spoke of attacking college [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Man accused of church killings spoke of attacking college
By MITCH WEISS and MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press | June 19, 2015 | Updated: June 20, 2015 1:22am
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A black drinking buddy of the white man accused of killing nine people at a Charleston church says the suspect told him a week earlier that he planned to shoot up a college campus in the city.
The friend, Christon Scriven, told The Associated Press on Friday that he thought Dylann Roof's statements were just drunken bluster. Still, Scriven said he was concerned enough that he and another friend, Joey Meek, went out to Roof's car and retrieved his .45-caliber handgun, hiding it in an air-conditioning vent of a mobile home until they all sobered up.
"He just said he was going to hurt a bunch of people" at the College of Charleston, said Scriven, 22.
"I said, 'What did you say? Why do you want to hurt those people in Charleston?'"
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Church-shooting-suspect-previously-arrested-on-6337776.php
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