A week before accused gunman Dylann Roof fired a hail of bullets and killed 9 people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, he hinted that he was going to carry out a massacre, his friend told NBC News. "He said that he was going to the college, to shoot the college up," Roof's friend Christon Scriven, 22, said. "I think that because that college campus is so hard to get onto … maybe he couldn't get into that school, and he settled on that church." Scriven and another friend, 17-year-old Justin Meek, also said Roof told them he recently bought the gun and was the registered owner. Law enforcement sources confirmed Roof bought the gun he used in the attack. Roof, 21, confessed to police that he opened fire on a Bible study group at the iconic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the nation's oldest African-American churches, just after 9 p.m. Wednesday, sources told NBC News.
