Dalton Tyler, the roommate of Dylann Roof the man responsible for this week’s horrific Charleston shootings has come forward and revealed that he was aware that his roommate had been “planning something like this for months”. According to ABC:
Dalton Tyler, who said he has known Roof for seven months to one year, said he saw the white, 21-year-old suspect just last week.
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
Tyler said he met Roof, a Lexington, South Carolina native, through a good friend. He also said Roof’s parents, with whom he said the suspect was “on and off,” had previously bought him a gun but never allowed him to take it with him until this past week.
Dylan Roof’s grandfather, Joe Roof, declined to comment to ABC News.

