"Dylann Roof"

The Charleston church killer says his two attorneys “are Jewish and Indian respectively. It is therefore quite literally impossible that they and I could have the same interests relating to my case.”

Dylann Roof shot dead nine people in the basement of a historically black church in 2015. He has already been sentenced to death on federal hate crimes charges.

Dylann Roof is facing the death penalty for the 2015 shooting rampage that killed nine black churchgoers. The self-avowed white supremacist also plans to represent himself.

A jury in Charleston, S.C., has found Roof guilty on all 33 federal hate crime counts for murdering nine people in the basement of a historically black church in 2015. He could be sentenced to death.

The judge in the federal trial of Dylann Roof, who is accused of murdering nine people in the basement of a historically black church, has ruled that the defendant may represent himself in court.

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel announced his ruling after a two-day competency hearing that was closed to the public. The 22-year-old Roof is facing 33 federal hate crime charges.

Dylann Roof faces federal as well as state charges for the fatal shooting of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston in June 2015.

Roof has been charged with murdering nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina in June. He also faces federal hate crime charges.

Along with nine counts of murder leveled by state prosecutors, the Justice Department says a grand jury indicted Dylann Roof of 33 federal counts; at least one could bring the death penalty.

After a massacre at a church in Charleston, South Carolina’s governor called for the Confederate flag to be removed from the grounds of the state Capitol. The flag has a long and divisive history.