Dylann Roof Formally Indicted In Charleston Church Shootings

Dylann Roof was formally indicted on Tuesday on nine murder charges and three attempted murder charges for the slayings in a Charleston, South Carolina church.

Roof has previously confessed to the murders at the African-American church to police.

Authorities say Roof sat through a prayer meeting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church before opening fire and killing nine.

The murders started a national conversation about the use of the confederate flag on public grounds.

The South Carolina state senate on Tuesday voted to remove the flag from the statehouse. The bill still has to go through the state house to pass.

Roof is a self-identified white supremacist who a friend said wanted to “start a civil war.”