New York Daily News

FIEND ON FILM

Jail vid shows church killer Roof taunting parents

- BY JESSICA SCHLADEBEC­K

A BRONX bartender who left his home to drop off laundry is now awash in cash after winning $7 million in the New York Lottery.

Michael Moriarty, 56, said he was running late to pick up his daughter when he made a quick stop at the Woodlawn Gift Shop on Katonah Ave. following his Laundromat visit.

The father of three usually buys four $5 tickets. But strapped for time, he purchased a single $25 Cash Blowout scratchoff ticket on April 12.

“I didn’t care which one because I was in a hurry,” Moriarty said. The bearded barman said he nearly collapsed when he realized he’d hit the jackpot.

“I bent over and grabbed my knees,” he recalled. “Then I stood back up and (the clerk) asked me if I was going to be sick. And I said, ‘Maybe!’ ”

Moriarty rushed to scoop up his daughter, and the elated pair drove to Empire City Casino to stake their claim.

The experience was “otherworld­ly,” said Moriarty, who’s getting a lump-sum payment of more than $4.3 million after taxes. IN NEARLY three hours of newly released jailhouse video, convicted mass murderer Dylann Roof can be seen pushing his mother’s buttons and making his father cry.

A judge showed the recordings to reporters in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday. They were made for use as exhibits in the hearings that determined whether Roof was competent to stand trial for murdering nine parishione­rs in a racist attack at Emmanuel AME Church in June 2015, the Post and Courier reported.

Roof (photo) ultimately was deemed competent and convicted.

The footage, which can be viewed at the federal clerk’s office by appointmen­t, shows Roof laughing with his parents on some occasions and provoking them on others.

Two days ahead of his first competency hearing, Roof told his father, “I’m going to make this even worse.”

“What’s wrong with you, son?” Ben Roof replies. “You’ve got to be kidding me. Don’t do something stupid. You’ve already done enough.”

The conversati­on between the pair ended with the elder Roof walking away in tears and leaving the 23-year-old inmate alone with his mother, Amy. She tells him there is nothing he could do to worsen the situation, but that she still loved him, according to the newspaper.

His mother also expressed dismay in the recordings over her son’s intentions to represent himself. Roof told her the only reason he was keeping his attorneys around was to “abuse them.”

“Do know that sounds?” she asks him.

“Funny?” he responds.

Roof also told his parents he was born with syphilis and that he couldn’t read any longer because his brain was deteriorat­ing. Doctors said he did not have the sexually-transmitte­d disease. you how

In another instance, he asked if his older sister’s new baby was transgende­r.

He also had visits from his younger sister and his mother’s boyfriend.

At the time of his second competency hearing, Roof rallied hard against having the recorded visits presented as evidence, telling officials it would infringe on his and his family’s privacy. He fired his lawyers so they couldn’t present the conversati­ons as evidence in their bid to save him from the death penalty.

The videos come amid a document dump by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who released Roof’s medical records Monday.

Roof was convicted on all 33 of the charges he faced, including hate crimes and obstructio­n of religious freedom. He was sentenced to death in January.

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