Roof was arrested in North Carolina the day after the massacre. According to NBC News, the 22-year-old Roof is in protective custody, meaning inmates’ cells are supposed to be locked while he showers alone.
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The racists and accused murderer, Dylann Roof has been attacked in the shower area of Charleston County Jail.
The Daily Dot called McDaniel Supply Company, which runs the JailPackStore donation site, but was told that they could not discuss individual inmate accounts and that any media inquiries would have to go through the prison facility itself. Watson is awaiting trial on first-degree assault and strong armed robbery charges.
“The detention officer responded quickly and separated the two and the injuries that Roof received are relatively minor – some bruising around the face and the back”.
At a news conference Thursday afternoon, officials said there may have been a malfunction with a cell locking mechanism that allowed Stafford to get out and approach Roof.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office report said 21-year-old Dylann Roof was in the shower when he was beaten around 7:45 a.m. Thursday at the Charleston County jail. Prosecutors allege Roof talked of starting a race war and posed with the Confederate battle flag before the killings.
At Roof’s first appearance before a judge shortly after the shooting, family members of the victims heartbreakingly pleaded for mercy on his behalf.
“We are looking into the issue of the door lock, what may have failed there”, said Sheriff Cannon.
Dylann Roof’s trial is set to start in November of this year, and he will be standing trial for hate crimes perpetrated against the nine people he murdered last year. In May, United States Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced the Justice Department would be seeking the death penalty in his case. The state trial is slated for January 2017 and State Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson said in July that SC will also be seeking the death penalty.
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His attorneys are challenging federal prosecutors’ intentions to seek the death penalty against him, filing a motion on Monday that the death penalty and federal death penalty law are unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press.
