An expected move:
Dylann Roof, the man suspected of killing nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., last month is expected to face federal hate crime charges, two law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
Mr. Roof, 21, already faces nine counts of murder in state court and could face the death penalty there. But Justice Department and F.B.I. officials have said the Charleston shooting was so horrific and racially motivated that the federal government must address it.
Roof's manifesto left little doubt that the murders were racially motivated, giving prosecutors ample evidence of his motive and supposed "goals" in murdering nine black Americans in their church. South Carolina is one of only five states that have
no state-level hate crimes law.
11:58 AM PT: According to The Associated Press, a grand jury has now indicted Roof on 33 federal charges.