Posted on 06/18/2015 10:30:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Law enforcement officers were at the home of Dylann Roof's mother on Thursday morning, the uncle, Carson Cowles, said in an interview.
Cowles said he recognized Roof in a photo released by police, and described him as quiet and soft-spoken. Roof's father gave him a .45-caliber pistol for his birthday this year, Cowles said.
Authorities caught up with Roof in Shelby, North Carolina, over 200 miles from the carnage he allegedly left behind, before noon on Thursday.
'Nobody in my family had seen anything like this coming,' Cowles said. 'I said, if it is him, and when they catch him, he's got to pay for this.'
He said he had told his sister, Roof's mother, several years ago that Roof was too introverted and worried he was cooped up in his room too much.
'I said he was like 19 years old, he still didn't have a job, a driver's license or anything like that and he just stayed in his room a lot of the time,' Cowles said.
A woman who answered the cellphone of the suspect's mother Amelia Roof, also known as Amy, declined to comment.
'We will be doing no interviews ever,' she said, before hanging up.
Roof, who attended White Knoll High School in Lexington, South Carolina, had in recent days befriended at least one black former classmate on the social media site, where his profile photo shows him scowling as he wears the jacket with racist emblems.
Many of Roof's older Facebook friends are black, as well.
A high school classmate of Roof's, John Mullins, told The Daily Beast that the accused white supremacist killer was 'kind of wild' and a big time prescription drug abuser.
'He used drugs heavily a lot,' Mullins said. 'It obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.'.....
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Maybe he self-identified as the Sandy Hook shooter.
LOL, sorry there was no intent to be part of a pile on, didn’t see the other responses before posting.
I wonder where his father is.
LOL!...Happens all the time!....................
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Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
No reverence or fear of God will unleash evil at any time. Combined with drugs it becomes a noxious brew.
But since everyone is looking for something else to blame, I'll blame the job killing Obama for not keeping this guy busy.
Can’t have firearms accessible to a family member whom you know or suspect to be mentally ill. It’s just irresponsible.
“He said he had told his sister, Roof’s mother, several years ago that Roof was too introverted and worried he was cooped up in his room too much.
‘I said he was like 19 years old, he still didn’t have a job, a driver’s license or anything like that and he just stayed in his room a lot of the time,’ Cowles said.”
Where was the father? When I was that age, loafing around without going to school and working just enough to get beer money, I got “the ultimatum” from my father. Get a job fulltime, go to school fulltime, or get out of the house.
If someone had given this guy “the ultimatum”, I wonder if 9 people would still be alive today.
For what it’s worth, I have a feeling this kid would not be too terribly concerned about committing perjury. Just a feeling.
Should have given him a gym club membership instead...
I’ve heard his father bought him the pistol that he used, so he must be in the picture somewhere.
Being such a doper, if Obama had a son...
I don’t care what the media says or doesn’t say. If you fly a soviet flag, you’re a commie. If you are not South African or Rhodesian and you fly those flags, you’re a racist.
I thought one of the cornerstones of Conservatism was personal responsibility and not blaming others' for one's failings.
Race hater, what goes around comes around. Not justifying the killings but whites have noticed what has been going on and of course some will retaliate. I suspect this isnt the end of it. jmo
“He said he had told his sister, Roof’s mother, several years ago that Roof was too introverted and worried he was cooped up in his room too much. So, he gives him a .45 for his birthday?...........”
>>>>No sweetie...the uncle made that statement of concern, but the FATHER gave the gun. There’s no mention whether mom/dad both live in the home together with the kids or not. If not maybe dad isn’t aware of this strange behavior.
Drudge has in bold red, “WHITE MAN KILLS 9 AT BLACK CHURCH”....that killer wasn’t a man at all.
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