Police Report Says Gunman Shot Each Charleston Church Shooting Victims Multiple Times

CHARLESTON, SC – JUNE 18: People stand outside the Emanuel AME Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people on June 18, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted Thursday during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South. (PHOTO CREDIT: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Authorities in Charleston, S.C., released court documents Friday that shed new light on the deadly shooting inside a historic church this week, a burst of violence that saw nine parishioners killed, left a city in mourning and shocked the country.

About an hour after Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday night, he stood up, “pulled out a handgun and began shooting,” according to an affidavit filed by Charleston police detective Richard Burckhardt.

“All victims were hit multiple times,” he stated. “All victims died as a result of their injuries.”

Burckhardt is listed on the Charleston Police Department’s site as one of the five people on the force’s homicide unit.

Roof, 21, spent about an hour with parishioners during Bible study before shooting them, the affidavit states. The document does not state what, if anything, occurred in the moments before he began shooting.

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SOURCE: The Washington Post, Mark Berman