The most hated man in America, 21, smirks as he is hauled away in cuffs and a bullet-proof vest after his arrest 'for shooting nine people dead at South Carolina church bible study

• Dylann Roof was pictured being taken away from the Shelby, North Carolina police department on Thursday, just hours after he was arrested thanks to member of the public who recognized him and called 911
• The 21-year-old 'opened fire at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina around 9pm on Wednesday, killing three men and six women aged between 26 and 78' 
• It has emerged that Roof had entered the church around an hour before the shooting and had joined the bible study group before suddenly opening fire 
• He let one woman escape so she could tell the world what happened while a child survived by playing dead
• Among the dead is 41-year-old Reverend Clementa Pinckney, pastor of the church and a South Carolina state senator who leaves behind a wife and two young daughters
• Obama called the killings 'senseless' and said it again highlighted the need for gun control 
• The U.S. Attorney's Office has launched a hate crime investigation

Dylann Storm Roof, the man who allegedly entered a South Carolina church last night and massacred nine people at their weekly bible study meeting, has been escorted in prison stripes onto a plane to be extradited from North Carolina. 

The 21-year-old was arrested shortly before noon on Thursday in Shelby, NC, 250 miles north of the targeted church in Charleston, SC. 

At 6.20pm local time he was seen in a jumpsuit, chains, handcuffs and a bullet-proof vest being chaperoned by dozens of armed police officers on to an airplane at Shelby-Cleveland County Regional Airport bound for South Carolina.

Survivors of the massacre claim Roof sat in the room for over an hour before standing up and saying: ‘You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go.’ 

He was detained after a member of the public spotted his car and called 911. Police say he surrendered without contest and was taken into custody when an officer approached his black Hyundai.  

'In America, we don't let bad people like this get away,' said Charleston Mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr. at a press conference announcing the arrest