American mass murderer

Dylann Roof

Dylann Storm Roof is an American mass murderer, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting. During a Bible study on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Roof murdered nine people and injured a tenth, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. 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.

Born

1994

April 3

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1994 Born

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686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
956 Polyeuctus of Constantinople is elected as patriarch of Constantinople.
1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.

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The world in 1994

When Dylann arrived

april 14 In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
april 15 Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
april 24 A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
april 26 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

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Also born on April 3

Arjen Anthony Lucassen 1960– Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948– Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico Ikki Kita 1883– Japanese philosopher and author (died 1937) Jan Sterling 1921–2004 American actress (died 2004) Jane Goodall 1934–2025 English primatologist and anthropologist (died 2025) Jaya Prada 1962– Indian actress and politician Leona Lewis 1985– English singer-songwriter and producer Michael Woodruff 1911– English-Scottish surgeon and academic (died 2001) Thomas C. Kinkaid 1888– American admiral (died 1972)

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