The judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. The accused shooter, Dylann Roof, was apprehended the morning after the June 17 attack and is awaiting trial on 33 counts, including murder and firearms charges, as well as federal hate crime charges. The shooting at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church in June caused national mourning and outrage, after a 21-year-old, reportedly with white supremacist beliefs, attended a Bible study session at the famed predominantly African-American church before allegedly opening fire on the group. One of this year’s deadliest mass shootings struck a particularly heartbreaking chord because of its location: inside a church. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. Corrections officer Gene Palmer was charged with assisting the pair of inmates to escape. She was sentenced to up to 7 years in prison. The prison seamstress, Joyce Mitchell, was arrested and admitted to having had a sexual relationship with Matt, along with providing the tools. They found Sweat two days later in November, he pleaded guilty to all charges related to his escape. Law enforcement officers shot and killed Matt on June 26. David Sweat and Richard Matt, both convicted murderers, escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York on June 6, crawling out of sewage pipes and digging through cell walls a la “The Shawshank Redemption.”Ī huge manhunt took place over much of northern New York for the next three weeks.
It involved two prisoners, a sexual liaison with a prison worker who smuggled tools hidden in frozen meat and a midnight escape with a smiley-faced getaway note. One of the biggest stories of the summer seemed like something straight out of a Hollywood movie.
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