Clerical error raw Roof buy gun

US authorities say a clerical error allowed the man accused of shooting dead nine people at a Charleston church, access to a gun.

AN employee at the Lexington County jail entered the wrong information into a database of South Carolina arrests, allowing the man charged with killing nine people at a Charleston church to buy the gun authorities say was used in the attack.

LEXINGTON County Sheriff Jay Koon told The Associated Press on Monday the wrong information about which agency arrested Dylann Roof on a drug charge was corrected two days after his arrest in February.