Lawyer: Roof's mom had heart attack during trial

Friday, December 9, 2016

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Dylann Roof's mother suffered a heart attack not long after prosecutors described how her son planned a calculated killing of nine black church members in a racially motivated attack, the white man's lawyer said in court documents Thursday.

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