A North Carolina woman's 911 call brought an end to a desperate manhunt for Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman authorities say is responsible for killing nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church Wednesday night.
Police has earlier released pictures from surveillance footage showing Roof, 21, as well as the car he was driving.
Debbie Dills, a bookkeeper who works at a florist shop in Kings Mountain, North Carolina said she was leaving church in her car when she looked over and saw a driver next to her with a bowl haircut.
Dills said she then thought there was something about the car that she had heard about somewhere, but couldn't place it. She then spotted the white tag that was in the police description of the shooting suspect.
The observant good Samaritan called her husband and then 911.
Police in Shelby -- about 13 miles west of Kings Mountain where Dills works and 245 miles north of the Charleston church -- said they were informed at 10:32 a.m. today "that a business had contacted them of a possible sighting of the suspect from the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting traveling into Shelby."
At 10:44 a.m., Roof was apprehended at a traffic stop in Shelby. He was taken into custody five minutes later, police said.
Roof cooperated with the officer who stopped him, according to police.
A court clerk confirmed to ABC News this afternoon that Roof waived extradition in North Carolina and is cleared to return to South Carolina.
Culled from yahoo news.
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