Chilling video footage has emerged of suspect Dylann Roof, sitting with a church prayer group just minutes before he is alleged to have shot dead nine people in the church in Charleston.
The snapchat video was taken by 26-year-old Tywanza Sanders, the youngest of the nine people killed in the shooting spree at Emanuel AME church on Wednesday.
Roof spent an hour with the prayer meeting group inside the historic church before pulling out a gun and shooting dead six women and three men, including the pastor, state senator Clementa Pinckney.
The other victims were identified as Cynthia Hurd, 54; the Rev Sharonda Singleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; Susie Jackson, 87; the Rev Daniel Simmons, 74; and DePayne Doctor, 49.
The suspect was captured and returned to South Carolina after a florist spotted his car in North Carolina, nearly four hours away.
He waived extradition from the state and was taken to a waiting police car wearing a bulletproof vest, with shackles on his feet and his hands cuffed behind his back, then put on a plane.
He is being held at a detention centre pending a bail hearing.
President Barack Obama, who personally knew the murdered pastor, said such shootings had to stop: “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”