Suspect in Charleston church shooting indicted on nine murder counts

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(Reuters) - Dylann Roof, the suspect in last month's massacre at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, the prosecutor said on Tuesday. Roof, a 21-year-old white man linked to racist views, is charged in the June 17 shooting rampage at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where nine black people were killed. Roof had already been charged by state warrants with the nine murder counts and one count of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

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