FBI arrests Joey Meek, friend of accused Charleston shooter Dylann Roof,Joey Meek, a acquaintance of accepted Charleston abbey ballista Dylann Roof, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday, a law administration official said.
It was not anon bright what accuse Meek faces. Authorities accept been investigating Meek aback the June cutting for allegedly alive about the abomination and not cogent authorities, the official said.
In the canicule afterwards the shooting, Meek batten with reporters with CNN and added media outlets, account how Roof had drunkenly vowed one night "to do something crazy."Meek said he hid Roof's gun that night, but put it aback the next day.
"I didn't yield him serious,' he said.
After audition the description of the doubtable in the Charleston abbey shooting, Meek told CNN he alleged the FBI the next morning, giving authorities abundant descriptions of what Roof was cutting and the authorization bowl on his car.
Church massacre
Roof, 21, faces accompaniment and federal accuse for the June 17 baleful advance at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
If convicted, he could face the afterlife penalty.
Nine humans were dead in the Bible abstraction massacre, including the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who aswell was a accompaniment senator.
Roof was captured in North Carolina the day afterwards the advance and was brought aback to South Carolina. Law administration admiral accept said he accepted to the killings.
Friend said cutting could accept been stopped
Meek told CNN anon afterwards the cutting that he had been accompany with Roof in average school. They'd absent blow a few years ago, but reconnected in contempo months, Meek said, abacus that there were things about Roof's contempo behavior that afraid him.
Roof said he capital to accept "a chase war," according to Meek, and already asked his acquaintance to cine him afire an American flag.
"I'm apologetic this all happened to everybody," Meek said in June. "And it could accept been prevented if humans would accept taken him serious. But Dylann wasn't a austere person, and no one took him serious."
It was not anon bright what accuse Meek faces. Authorities accept been investigating Meek aback the June cutting for allegedly alive about the abomination and not cogent authorities, the official said.
In the canicule afterwards the shooting, Meek batten with reporters with CNN and added media outlets, account how Roof had drunkenly vowed one night "to do something crazy."Meek said he hid Roof's gun that night, but put it aback the next day.
"I didn't yield him serious,' he said.
After audition the description of the doubtable in the Charleston abbey shooting, Meek told CNN he alleged the FBI the next morning, giving authorities abundant descriptions of what Roof was cutting and the authorization bowl on his car.
Church massacre
Roof, 21, faces accompaniment and federal accuse for the June 17 baleful advance at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
If convicted, he could face the afterlife penalty.
Nine humans were dead in the Bible abstraction massacre, including the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who aswell was a accompaniment senator.
Roof was captured in North Carolina the day afterwards the advance and was brought aback to South Carolina. Law administration admiral accept said he accepted to the killings.
Friend said cutting could accept been stopped
Meek told CNN anon afterwards the cutting that he had been accompany with Roof in average school. They'd absent blow a few years ago, but reconnected in contempo months, Meek said, abacus that there were things about Roof's contempo behavior that afraid him.
Roof said he capital to accept "a chase war," according to Meek, and already asked his acquaintance to cine him afire an American flag.
"I'm apologetic this all happened to everybody," Meek said in June. "And it could accept been prevented if humans would accept taken him serious. But Dylann wasn't a austere person, and no one took him serious."
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