Tags: Dylann Roof

Benjamin McDowell, a man from South Carolina was arrested for illegal possession of firearm with the intention to commit a crime similar to the 2015 massacre committed by Dylann Roof.

An attorney for the man accused of gunning down nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina in June said on Wednesday his client is willing to plead guilty to state murder charges if that would spare him a death sentence.

The white man charged in South Carolina with killing nine blacks at a Charleston church faces federal hate crimes and firearms charges that could lead to the death penalty or life in prison, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.