Police captured the white suspect Thursday in a gun massacre at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest deadly assault to feed simmering racial tensions. Police detained 21-year-old Dylann Roof, shown wearing the flags of defunct white supremacist regimes in pictures taken from social media, after nine churchgoers were shot dead during bible study on Wednesday. He was caught at a traffic stop in North Carolina and brought back to Charleston, South Carolina, the scene of the slaughter in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The carnage was the worst at a US place of worship in decades and recalled the darkest periods of US history, in a...
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