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| Charleston shootings: Dylann Roof photos found online | |
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| Images have surfaced online that appear to show the gunman that killed nine people at an African-American church in South Carolina posing with a gun. | Images have surfaced online that appear to show the gunman that killed nine people at an African-American church in South Carolina posing with a gun. |
| The collection of photographs discovered on a website also show 21-year-old Dylann Roof burning the US flag and visiting a slave plantation. | The collection of photographs discovered on a website also show 21-year-old Dylann Roof burning the US flag and visiting a slave plantation. |
| In one image he is shown staring down the camera while sitting on a chair in camouflage trousers holding a gun. | In one image he is shown staring down the camera while sitting on a chair in camouflage trousers holding a gun. |
| It is unclear who posted the images on the site, which was found on Saturday. | It is unclear who posted the images on the site, which was found on Saturday. |
| The website was taken offline on Saturday shortly after it was discovered. Internet records suggest its domain was registered in February but it is unclear who was behind it. | |
| Data from the images show many of them were taken in April and May this year. | |
| Many of the photographs show Mr Roof posing with the Confederate flag, a symbol used in the US south during the civil war when southern states tried to break away to prevent the abolition of slavery. | |
| It is viewed by many as symbolising the white supremacy advocated by those states at the time. | |
| Mr Roof was arrested on Thursday and charged with the murders of nine African-Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in downtown Charleston. | |
| Police said he spent an hour sitting with parishioners inside the church before opening fire on them on Wednesday evening. | |
| Crowds gathered outside the historic church on Saturday to hear pastors from across the US lead prayers. | |
| The church is due to reopen on Sunday for a service at 09:00 local time (13:00 GMT). |