New information has surfaced about 21-year old Dylann Roof, the man who law enforcement suspect was behind a shooting in a historic Charleston, South Carolina church that left 9 dead on Wednesday evening.

Roof, who was arrested at a traffic stop in North Carolina earlier, was “big into segregation” and stated he “wanted to start a civil war,” roommate Dalton Tyler told ABC. Tyler also stated Roof had been planning “something like” what occurred at the church and pointed out he would kill himself once it was over.

Roof apparently expended nearly an hour with the bible study group at Emanuel AME church prior to opening fire and killing 3 men and 6 women. The victims, as outlined by ABC, are Rev. Clementa Pinckney — a church pastor and a South Carolina state senator. 6 other victims were identified as Rev. Sharonda Singleton, retired pastor Dr. Daniel L. Simmons, Ethel Lee Lance, Cynthia Hurd, Myra Thompson and recent college graduate Tywanza Sanders.

Roof was arrested on February 28 at a mall in Columbia, South Carolina where authorities were called after he asked Bed, Bath & Beyond employees a sequence of “out of the ordinary” questions. When police searched him, they found suboxone strips for which he could not provide a prescription. Roof was prohibited from the mall for a year, but returned 2 months later and was arrested for trespassing. The police report from the first incident is embedded below.

The following is a bit of color from NPR that sheds some light on Roof’s basic perspective:

An undated Facebook picture of Roof displays him wearing a jacket with two patches. 1 is a pre-apartheid-era flag of South Africa, and the other is the flag for Rhodesia, the formerly white-ruled country now called Zimbabwe.

The Daily News has a tad bit more on the activities that took place in the lead up to the shooting:

The suspected gunman who massacred nine people inside a historic black South Carolina church Wednesday got a gun for his 21st birthday in April and bragged last week about his plans to “kill a bunch of people,” sources said.

The 21-year-old suspected gunman told his friends at the trailer park last week that he wanted to kill people at a local college – but no one took him seriously because of his deadpan sense of humor, his friend Christon Scriven told the Daily News.

“He flat out told us he was going to do this stuff,” said Scriven. Roof moved close to the Lexington, S.C., trailer park about two months ago, he said.

Last Wednesday – exactly one week before the Charleston church massacre – Roof told his friends and neighbors at the park that “he was looking to kill a bunch of people on Wednesday” at the College of Charleston, Scriven said.

The friends assumed Roof, known for his dry sense of humor, was joking.

“He’s weird. You don’t know when to take him seriously and when not to,” said Scriven, who is black.

The College of Charleston said Roof had no connection to the public university.

Meanwhile, Roof’s uncle Carson Cowles said Roof’s dad gave him a .45 caliber gun for his 21st birthday in April – a present that delighted the shy, quiet Roof. Cowles talked to him a day later.

“He said, ‘I got to go, I’m outside shooting target practice right now,’” he said. “He sounded happy about it.”

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