MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAMES MARTINEZ
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — White supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof staged a hunger strike this month while on federal death row, alleging in letters to The Associated Press that he's been "targeted by staff," "verbally harassed and abused without cause" and "treated disproportionately harsh."
The 25-year-old Roof, who killed nine black church members during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, told the AP in a letter dated Feb. 13 that the staff at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, feel justified in their conduct "since I am hated by the general public."
A person familiar with the matter said Roof had been on a hunger strike but was no longer on one, as of this week. The person couldn't immediately provide spe
