According to newly released court documents, convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof traveled to a second AME church after killing nine people at Emanuel AME but was too tired to continue shooting.
GPS data revealed Roof’s itinerary to investigators, court records not presented in the trial showed, according to ABC News. No information was given about whether Roof entered the church or whether anyone was in the building when he got there, but Roof did shut off his GPS device for several minutes while at the church.
The documents contradicted defense arguments that there was no evidence suggesting a second church attack.
Roof carried out his attack at Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday night, June 17, 2015. The Branch AME church also held a Wednesday night Bible study, according to the documents, ABC said, but the study may have been over by the time he got to the church.
An avowed white supremacist who targeted the black church intentionally, Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crime charges in December and sentenced to death last month for the shooting.
His attorneys subsequently asked for a new federal trial, claiming the government failed to prove the religious obstruction charges against him in the original trial. The judge overruled the arguments and allowed the previous charges to stand.
Roof must still face a death penalty trial in state court, which was postponed during his federal trial and has not been rescheduled.