Church shooter’s friend enters prison

A friend with whom convicted church shooter Dylann Roof shared his plans to massacre South Carolina churchgoers has begun serving more than two years in prison for lying to federal authorities. Joey Meek reported to Elkton Federal Correction Institution in Lisbon, Ohio, on Tuesday, attorney Debbie Barbier said Friday. Elkton is a low-security facility with just over 2,300 inmates about 80 miles southeast of Cleveland, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons website. Prosecutors have said that Roof told Meek, 22, during a night of vodka, cocaine, marijuana and video games that he was planning to kill black people at a Charleston church during an evening Bible study. Meek told authorities he thought his childhood friend was all talk until a week later, when news broke of a deadly shooting rampage at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. But instead of calling authorities, Meek talked another friend out of going to police and giving them Roof ’s name, and then lied to the FBI about his conversation with Roof.