A South Carolina man was arrested in connection with planning a violent white supremacist attack "in the spirit of Dylann Roof," the FBI said in a complaint Thursday.
Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, became known to federal agents after a series of Facebook posts were flagged in which he made threats and professed violent white supremacist ideologies, said Special Agent Grant Lowe of the FBI's office in Columbia.
McDowell, also known as Benji, met with an undercover FBI agent on Wednesday to purchase a gun at the parking lot of a Myrtle Beach Hampton Inn. He was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm, which is illegal due to his pre-existing status as a felon on unrelated charges
Feds arrest man for allegedly planning Dylann Roof-style attack