The 21 year-old Charleston killer Dylann Roof who confessed to killing nine African-Americans in a church of Charleston, South Carolina was apparently originally planning to assault a college.

NBC News and the Washington Post claim that Roof told an African-American neighbor of his recently, on a night when they were out drinking, that he wanted to shoot up a school.

On another occasion, Roof claimed that he was going to assault Charleston College. The neighbor didn’t give much heed to the words, seeing as the young man was intoxicated.