South Carolina florist Debbie Dills was instrumental in putting confessed Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof behind bars, actions she attributes to "divine intervention."
In an interview with "Today Show" co-host Savannah Guthrie, Dills said she spotted a car matching police descriptions of Roof’s car on her way to work and became suspicious after hearing that police were seeking the vehicle. She called her boss at work, who told her to call the police.
"I was nervous, I was scared, I'm normally not that kind of person, and I got back on the bypass to go see just if I could get a tag number, just to see — just had a feeling and I'm sure that was divine intervention," she told Today. "I feel like God has his hand in it and that he had me where I needed to be."
"I don't know what drew my attention to the car,"
Dills told CNN. "In my mind I'm thinking, 'That can't be.' ... I never dreamed that it would be the car."
CNN reported that two law enforcement officials said Roof, 21, confessed to entering the historic black church, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston on Wednesday and killing nine people.
Roof showed up at the church and attended a Bible study. An unidentified source
told NBC News that Roof told police he “"almost didn't go through with it because everyone was so nice to him.”
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