Florist hailed a hero after tailing Church shooting suspect’s car

Florist hailed a hero after tailing Church shooting suspect’s car
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Florist Hailed A Hero After Tailing Church Shooting Suspect’s Car. A North Carolina florist is being hailed a hero for alerting police when she spotted the suspected gunman\'s car and then tailed him for nearly 50 km until authorities arrested him, hours after the massacre of nine black worshippers in one of the worst hate crimes in US history.

Washington: A North Carolina florist is being hailed a hero for alerting police when she spotted the suspected gunman's car and then tailed him for nearly 50 km until authorities arrested him, hours after the massacre of nine black worshippers in one of the worst hate crimes in US history.

The 51-year-old Debbie Dills was driving to work on Thursday through Shelby, North Carolina – about four hours' drive from Charleston – when she spotted a black Hyundai with a South Carolina plate and a confederate flag.

"I don't know what drew my attention to the car," she told CNN. "There was just something inside of me that said it just didn't look right to me," she said.

When she pulled up alongside, she saw the driver's blond bowl haircut and immediately called her boss, Todd Frady. Police had earlier launched a massive manhunt and identified the gunman as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof. Roof is suspected of killing nine people, including pastor and South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney, during a prayer meeting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Wednesday night.

Dills said she saw the people on TV praying, asking God to help someone find the killer. Dills believes God used her to answer those prayers.

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