Andrew KimmelVerified account

“In February 2015, four months before the murders, an ad with a picture of a young man appeared on Craigslist. Dylann Roof was anonymously looking for a companion to join him on a tour of historic Charleston, and he was seeking anyone except “Jews, queers, or n——s.”

“Occasionally he went to strip clubs; in an interview with the Charlotte Observer, Meek's girlfriend recalled that Dylann Roof had a preference for black strippers.”

“The white supremacists of today, having been kicked off Twitter, often have Instagram bios that offer an eerie good-bye to their opposition: Good night, left side. And there are thousands of them.”

“When I attempted to go to Boone Hall Plantation to see the exhibits and the stuffed enslaved-people dummies that Roof posed with in some of his pictures, I was told I was not welcome there unless I submitted a media request, since I might have a negative view of the plantation.”

“It is possible that Dylann Roof is not an outlier at all, then, but rather emblematic of an approaching storm.”

“The youngest man in the room, Tywanza Sanders, tried to reason with Dylann Roof, but when that failed, he stood up and faced Roof's barrel so that his mother, Felicia Sanders, his aunt Susie, and his niece might live... He died with his arm stretched out toward his aunt.”

“To pull the trigger of a Glock, you must exert about six pounds of force. Roof pulled that trigger seven times when he murdered Ethel Lance.”