Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof may have been aided in his attack on parishioners at a famed black church last month.
The self-declared white supremacist militant’s assault left nine dead and a storm of controversy about the Confederate flag that he was supposedly honoring with the massacre of unarmed African Americans.
Lone gunman Roof was arrested for mass murder less than 24 hours later in neighboring North Carolina, but state and federal investigators now think that, at least in the planning stages, he might’ve had some help in committing the atrocity.
They’re now looking at several individuals -- and possibly even online racist outlier groups -- who may have been aware that the historic Mother Emanuel Church was going to be the scene of a public shooting by the drug-addled 21-year-old.
According to multiple sources, Dylann Roof’s computer and cell phone records revealed a wealth of contact info regarding likeminded “associates” who, depending on what kind of assistance they provided, may now find themselves charged as his accomplices.
Police insist none of those unnamed persons of interest are believed to have any ties to established white-supremacist organization long active in the Charlestown area, such as the Ku Klux Klan.
The KKK itself has not taken credit for the controversial church shooting and didn’t order it, claim its spokesmen.
