Justice Department Opens Hate Crime Investigation into Church Shooting

Dylann Roof
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

The Justice Department will investigate the motivations and facts behind the shooting that left nine dead at a historic black church in South Carolina.

Reuters reports that Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Thursday that the department has opened a hate-crime investigation.

“We will now be looking at all of the facts, all of the motivations all the things that led this individual – if he is in fact the shooter – to commit this crime. And we will determine which is the best ways in which to prosecute the case,” Lynch told reporters at a news conference in Washington.

It has not yet been determined whether the case will be a state or federal one.

The suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, was arrested and accused in the shooting.

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