Dylann Roof No Longer at Charleston County Detention Center
Bill McGuire of the S.C. Commission on Indigent Defense, talks with Dylann Roof as he appears in the Charleston County Court Monday, April 10, 2017, to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in Charleston,S.C. The convicted Charleston church shooter, Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences in state prison after he pleaded guilty to state murder charges Monday, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) – Dylann Roof is no longer being housed at the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center. Friday afternoon he was taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service.
Roof’s new home will be in the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute. It’s a medium-security prison in Indiana.
Roof was convicted and sentenced to death in January for the deaths of nine people shot and killed in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015.
It’s currently unknown when Roof will be executed for his crimes.
