87yearold woman. Police say they and others were murdered because of their race. Were looking at their lives and their legacies. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news as yet another American Community grieves tonight and the entire country recoils in shock and horror, the youngman who police say gunned down nine worshippers at a Historic Church is now in custody. 21yearold dylann roof was arrested. According to police the suspect sat in a prayer meeting before standing up and saying he was there to shoot black people. All of the victims, including the churchs pastor were black. The alleged gunman is white. Federal authorities are now investigating this as a hate crime. We have complete coverage tonight. Ill speak with South Carolina congressman, the former governor mark sanford, and our correspondents analysts and guests. Theyre standing by with the latest de tails. Lets begin with john berman hes he site of the church. John, tell us what happened. Reporter wolf we just learned this suspect has waived extradition, and he will be back on his way here to South Carolina. Where police say shortly after 9 00 in this church behind me emanuel a. M. E. Mother emanuel as its called is accused of opening fire after a bible study class of prayer service, killing nine people six women, three men, and what many are now calling a hate crime. Tonight the first glimpse of the alleged gunman. Authorities transporting 21yearold dylann roof shortly after his capture. A terrible human being, who would go into a place of worship where people were praying and kill them, is now in custody. Reporter he was nabbed in North Carolina about 250 miles from charleston in the emanuel a. M. E. Church less than 24 hours after the shooting. Police were tipped off by a citizen after a huge manhunt. Ems command page active shooter, multiple people down. Reporter police say the shooter spent almost an hour inside the church with a dozen others attending a bible study class before he pulled out his weapon. Sources say it may have been a handgun given to him business his father as a birthday gift. According to witnesses, the gunman said he was there to shoot black people telling victims, quote, you rape our women and are taking over our country, and you have to go. Acts like this one had no place in our country, and no place in a civilized society, and i want to be clear, the individual who committed these acts will be found and will face justice. Reporter among the dead Church Pastor and state senator Clementa Pinckney. Witnesses say he was preaching when he was shot. A black cloth is now draped over his seat in the legislature. This is someone who should be revered and respected, and we all want ants it is why did this man choose this choose . Reporter three got out alive. A 5yearold reportedly survived by plays dead. A local naacp leader says one was spared because the shooter wanted her to tell the world what he had done. Theres something particular heartbreaking about a death happening in a place in which we seek solace and peace. A place of worship. Emanuel a. M. E. Is one of the largest and oldest africanamerican congregations in the south. It was once burned to the ground because its worshippers worked to end slavery. President obama calls it a sacred place in americas history. Tonight, the people here at charleston are grieving. We woke up today and the heart and soul of South Carolina was broken. Reporter an emotion so understandable. I can tell you there was a palpable sense of relief when officials had this suspect. They got him in custody. There was a great deal of fear here overnight into the Early Morning hours, because someone went into this church behind me and said he wanted to kill black people and did. Yes, there is anger, there are questions, but more than anything people in this community are now looking to each other and want to move forward together. Wolf . John thank you, john berman on the scene for us, the alleged gunman is 21 years old with a prior report and an online profile that suggests extremist views. Lets go to brian todd. He joins us from South Carolina with more on this part of the story. Brian . Reporter wolf weve been talking to people here in the columbia South Carolina area which is the hometown of dylann roof. We have more information on his recent arrest record. According to cord records, he was arrested in february at a South Carolina mall not far from here when employees at a Bath Bodyworks complained that a white male dressed all in black was asking quote out of the ordinary questions about how Many Associates were working at the story and when they would be leaving. The Police Officer who responded to that call said roof was arrested after he found Illegal Drugs that are used to treat addictions on his in his possession. Two months later, dylann roof was arrested again for trespass trespassing at the same mall apparently ignoring we also found out information about his schooling. This is white nol high school in lexington, South Carolina. We found he bounced around the School System here in lexington and Richland County nearby. He went here to White Knoll High School just for the ninth grade, but an official said he had to repeat the ninth grade, but left in february of 2010 in the middle of his second ninthgrade year then went to drayer high school in Richland County. Were trying to dig as to where he might have gone after that but theres no record of him attending school after that. Now, as for his schooling here i spoke to john mullins, a friend of his in the ninth grade here at White Knoll High School and i asked him a key question about dylann roof basically given what we know now. Did he ever exhibit any racist tendencies . He said some like jokes before but they werent too serious. I didnt think of them as serious. Reporter what kind of jokes . Im really going to say them but they were just racist slurs in a sense, just as a joke. I dont know how else to explain it but i never took it seriously, but now if he showed his other side, maybe it should have been taken more seriously. Reporter john mullins said he is sick and devastated over this incident in charleston South Carolina. We have also just found out, wolf that dylann roof has waived extradition and hes being flown back tonight to charleston. Wolf . Brian todd, thanks very much. Lets stay at the massacre scene. Don lemon has a breaking development. Don, what are you learning . Reporter wolf you have an exclusive for you and our viewers. It is from inside of this church during the bible study. I want to put the picture up on the screen. The first one, the first image youll see inside of this church during the bible study. This is if you look at the corner of your screen the man in gray the person you see in the gray sweatshirt is 21yearold dylann roof in this bible study before any of that shooting started. We got this from one of the victims his snapchat account, tywanza sanders, a friend contacted us and sent him this image. The other image, and its shocking to see him among this group. This is another victim in this state senator and the pastor at this church Clementa Pinckney inside the bible study, leading the bible study. These are the only images that we know exist now from inside this church when this happened. Its just amazing to see that this young man came into the church made himself a sat there for an hour calmly listened to these people lulled them in made them believe he was part of the group and that he wanted to seek got in some way and he needed some studying from the bible, and then he shoots and kills nine people. Wolf the images are startling. Were working to get more but its unbelievable to see the calm in the room. The young man among the group before all this shooting and think chaos and act of terror started. And they welcomed into this bible study class. He sat there, as you point out, don, for an hour then he took out a gun and he just brutally killed six women and three men . Thats what happened, right . Yeah absolutely and then according to someone who was there, she said she was speared. He allegedly told her, i want you had to go back and tell everyone what happened wanted her to be a witness, to be the conduit to the world as to what happened but the images are startling. This is believed to be 21yearold dylann roof inside the emanuel a. M. E. Church just moments, moments before he murdered really massacred nine people in an act of terror inside this church. And then the other image that is on your screen that you are looking at is another victim here the pastor of the church state senator and pastor Clementa Pinckney welcoming this young man into the fold and all of the people whomp there that evening into the fold trying to teach them to do good teach them from the bible, teach them gods way, the holy way. Amongst them was a devil, this young man, who is accused of this horrible act, wolf. All right. Don lemon reporting, were going to get back to you, of course and don will have full coverage of this Church Massacre and the aftermath at 10 00 p. M. Eastern later tonight on cnn tonight. Joining us now is republican congressman mark sanford of South Carolina a former governor of that state. When you heard that report from don lemon, he sat there for an hour, this not only was a mass murder congressman, it was a hate crime, and also an act of terror, right . I dont know what was going through the kids man, but certainly the act of a de ranged human being, and this level of malice i think is unfathomable in this community, in this nation. I mean it is i think your correspondent last talking said the work of the devil . Clearly the work of the devil. What are your people there on the scene told you about this shooter dylann roof. I dont know. Eve obviously inundated with phone calls, texts emails saying, did you hear . Are you aware of . Starting early this morning and beginning late last night. You know ive had conversations with folks in leadership you know in the white and black community here at home but in terms of knowing the ins and outs of what made this kid tick i dont have a clue. I know that proof is in the pudding. He was a terribly disturbed union person who in this case perpetrated an unimaginable crime. Do you know if he had any connections to hate groups white supremacist groups, anything along those lines . I dont have a clue. I dont know but again i know what he did, and that is the part that has brought all these cameras into place, thats whats brought the leadership from the black and white community. Thats whats inflicted unimagine abe pain. I no el what he did. I want you to stand by. We have more to discuss, including i know you knew the pastor at this church in charleston. Stand by. Well continue our breaking News Coverage right after this. It wouldnt make sense if you turned on something in one room and it turned on everywhere else. 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Online and on the usaa app. Lets get back to the breaking news the allegeside Church Massacre gunman is now in custody, 250 miles away from the Historic Church in charleston South Carolina where he murdered nine people apparently just because they were black. Were back with the South Carolina congressman, the former governor mark sanford. Tell us a bit about the reverend Clementa Pinckney the pastor here. You knew him, right . I did. We overlapped by eight yours during the eight years i was governor he was a South Carolina senator. He was a remarkable human being. You talk about walking the walk with regard to ones faith, he walked the walk. I think, you know you talk to anybody who knew him, he had a real gravitas about him in the way he approached his faith, in the way he tried to help folks in his community. When you hear that a 5yearold representative a 5yearold pretended to be dead in order to avoid being shot what goes through your mind about what happened at this Historic Church . The obvious. I didnt get to see the images you were showing, but i heard you talking through them. Clearly absolute mayhem and again diabolical intent that somebody would go into a bible study, listen for an hour and decide to shoot everybody in there . I think its horrific. I admire that childs, you know survival instincts to say im going to blade dead and hope this devil of a human being doesnt shoot me . Just absolute mayhem. You can only imagine what that child must be thinking today. Is it time to tighten security at black churches in South Carolina . I think, again, there will be all kinds of different legal, legislative and judicial remedies offered. I think right now is the time for mourning. I think its a time for the community to come together around this congregation that has absolutely devastatingly impacted. The president spoke out, he was obviously very moved, as all of us have been but he also said it was time to focus attention on gun control. Listen to this. At some point we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of Mass Violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesnt happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it. Congressman, your response . My response would be in a free and open society, which is something that does mark our society, one who is willing to in essence kill themselves in the process of killing others will always be able to do so. Its the tension thats existed for 1,000 years between security and freedom. Again well have a long political debate on whether or not we have that calibration right. What i do know is too obvious in the wake of tragedies advocates on both sides of the debate use the debate to their own ends. Again, i think its premature. We need to focus on the families whose lives have been forever impacted to think about the quality of the life that reverend pinckney lived and how we might model his life. Think about Race Relations in this state and this country. There are a lot of things to think about, moving to larger debate on gun control i dont think should come in the immediate aftermath. The other issue thats come up and because theres a photo of dylann roof setting on his car with a plate reading Confederate States of america. Today the u. S. Supreme court ruled that texas is allow to do lee ject a license plate design with a Confederate Flag. On the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse they still fly a Confederate Flag. Congress madge, is it time for South Carolina to make a change . Again another intense debate within South Carolina. For some folks that represents heritage. For others it represents hate. Its for that reasons that the Confederate Flag was brought down off the State Capitol and put in a place of memorial for the statehouse grounds. That was a compromise formed some years ago. I think you have to be attentive to where my brothers in christ are coming from on this debate. Lonie randolph reverend darby, a long list of friends who believe passionately it still ought to come down from that place, but i have an equal number of friends who say, wait a minute my great uncle died in this particular effort. For me it wasnt about slavery, it was about states rights. Its an intense debate. What i do know is a compromise was formed. I was the first governor in the history of South Carolina to apologize for the orangeburg massacre. I think there are things we can do but its premature to go into an intention emotionally drank debate on w