Father Dylann Roof Parents

Little is known about roof s mother amelia amy roof other than her cowles family lineage and her previous marriage to roof s father franklin bennett benn roof.

Father dylann roof parents.

State of south carolina. Franklin bennett dylann roof s dad is also the father of morgan the newspaper reported adding that morgan is the daughter of franklin bennett and mann. According to richland county family court records amy and benn were married in february 1988 and divorced in 1991 three years before dylann was born in 1994. Dylann storm roof born april 3 1994 is an american white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the charleston church shooting on june 17 2015 in the u s.

Accused killer dylann roof s father franklin bennett pictured 52 known as benn was verbally and emotionally abusive to his wife during their 10 year marriage the daily mail said friday. Cowles who said. During a bible study at emanuel african methodist episcopal church roof killed nine people all african americans including senior pastor and state senator clementa c. When dylann roof was 14 the rocky marriage of his father and stepmother began to unravel according to court records.

He allegedly told his victims. Ben and amy roof have been named as the parents of dylann storm roof the 21 year old who opened fire inside emanuel african methodist episcopal ame church in charleston south carolina killing 9 people. Roof a construction contractor who liked to ride harleys. As noted above roof s parents divorced even before he was born.

Not only were adam lanza s parents divorced but he hadn t seen his father in the two years before the sandy hook shooting. Amber roof has also provoked. It was dylann roof s father franklin roof who bought him the gun that he used to massacre nine churchgoers in charleston franklin married paige mann in 1998 when dylann was four and she was the. Carson cowles spoke with reuters on thursday afternoon while police were searching for roof telling reporters that roof s father had given him a gun as a 21st birthday present.

The birth came three years after his parents had divorced. Pinckney and injured.