Dylann Roof (Man Who Shot Up Charleston Church) Was Attacked In A South Carolina Jail

Dylann Roof (Man Who Shot Up Charleston Church) Was Attacked In A South Carolina Jail  

 BHR Hollywood Reports...........Dylann Roof, the white man charged in the massacre of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church, was slugged Thursday by a black inmate at the South Carolina jail where he is being held, law officials said.

Dwayne Stafford ran down the stairs from his cell after Roof went into the shower around 7:45 a.m. Thursday and hit him, bruising Roof's face and back, according to a police report.

Dylann Roof Moments Before The Church Shooting 

Roof, 22, who is white, was examined by jail medical personnel and returned to his cell, Charleston County Sheriff's Maj. Eric Watson told The Associated Press.

Watson said Stafford will be charged with assault. The 26-year-old Stafford is awaiting trial on first-degree assault and strong armed robbery charges.

 

Dwayne Stafford

Roof has been housed at the Charleston County Detention Center since being brought back from North Carolina a day after the June 17, 2015, slayings of nine people during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church, the report said. Prosecutors have said Roof was trying to make his way to Nashville, Tennessee, after the shootings.

Dylann Roof 

Roof faces the death penalty in upcoming trials in both federal and state courts.

The federal government has charged Roof with hate crimes and other offenses in the shootings. Prosecutors allege Roof talked of starting a race war and posed with the Confederate battle flag
before the killings.

 His federal trial is set for November.

Defense attorneys have said in both state and federal courts that Roof is willing to plead guilty and serve a life term in prison if prosecutors don't seek the death penalty.