Report: Dylann Roof told expert he was a sociopath, not autistic
Source: CNN
Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Dylann Roof told his dad during a November prison visit, before he was convicted of gunning down nine people in a church, that he was going to do something to make it worse.
The mysterious exchange was among new details released this week as US District Judge Richard Gergel unsealed 19 documents from Roof's competency hearings and videos of three prison visits by his family. Together, they help paint a picture of the 23-year-old's mental state before and after he was imprisoned for the church massacre.
According to a transcript from November, Roof told a psychologist working for his defense team that his death penalty wouldn't be carried out because he'd "be rescued by white nationalists after they took over the government."
The transcript was included in a report composed amid Roof's trial for killing nine parishioners in 2015 at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The report also says Roof was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder "based on the presence of social-communication challenges and atypical behaviors."
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