Three Muslim college students killed in Chapel Hill shooting; 46-year-old man charged
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Three college students killed in Chapel Hill shooting; 46-year-old man charged
Posted 6:13 p.m. yesterday
Updated 45 minutes ago
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A 46-year-old Chapel Hill man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three college students were shot and killed Tuesday evening at a condominium complex on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, authorities said.
Craig Stephen Hicks turned himself in to the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office in Pittsboro following the shooting, which happened in the Finley Forest complex off Barbee Chapel Road shortly after 5 p.m.
Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, of Chapel Hill, Yusor Mohammad, 21, of Chapel Hill, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh, were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
All three victims were shot in the head, sources said.
Barakat, a second-year dental student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, married Yusor Mohammad in late December, according to school officials.
According to a page on YouCaring.com, a free online fundraising website, Barakat was one of the organizers of an effort to raise money to provide free dental care to students of the Salaam School in Turkey. Barakat and others were scheduled to travel to Turkey in the summer of 2015 to treat children who have become refugees due to the ongoing Syrian civil war.
Mohammad is listed on her Facebook page as a student at North Carolina State University, and officials at UNC said she was planning to begin dental studies in Chapel Hill this fall.
Abu-Salha, Mohammad's younger sister, is listed as a sophomore at NC State and a graduate of Athens Drive High School in Raleigh.
The three victims were Muslim, and Hicks is not, according to posts about atheism on his Facebook page. In thousands of posts on social media, many have now questioned whether the victims' Islamic faith was a factor in the shooting.
Investigators have not said what led to the shootings. Hicks was being held without bond early Wednesday in the Durham County jail. He is scheduled to make a first court appearance Wednesday morning.
The shootings came as a surprise to Bethany Boring, who encountered police cars, crime scene tape and people visibly upset when she stepped out of her home to walk her dog.
"It's a very quiet community," she said. "It's a lot of graduate and professional students. You know, professional's families."
Daniel Waggoner echoed Boring's description of the neighborhood.
"I'm up late. I come home late, and it's always quiet when I get here," he said. "So I mean, yeah, it's surprising."
A campus crime alert from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was sent to students. The complex is located near campus.
http://www.wral.com/three-killed-in-chapel-hill-shooting-46-year-old-man-charged/14438074/
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White on White crime *yeezy shrug*
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Bethany Boring seems legit.
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? cacs
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They deserved it. All Muslims are evil terrorist. At some point they were going to carry out a suicide bombing anyways. This was just a preemptive strike.
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White people just can't take the thought of a ? being different from them smh.
R.I.P. to the deceased. -
I bet he had just watched American Sniper also.
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Surprised this ? didnt happen sooner.
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Hate crime
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How can a muslim woman marry a white dude??
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How can a muslim woman marry a white dude??
Your do know Muslims vary in color? Right? -
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Yeah but im suprised her family would allow it.
My muslim friends parents r very strict -
Fox News....matter of fact....right wing conservative media....as a whole has blood on their hands
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I bet he had just watched American Sniper also.
the dude looks like chris kyle if chris kyle was fat -
nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/north-carolina-shooting-spurs-muslimlivesmatter.htmlGlobal outrage over the murder of three Muslim students in North Carolina spread quickly through social media on Wednesday, with the hashtag #muslimlivesmatter appearing in scores of posts shared all over the world, from Southeast Asia, to the Middle East and Europe.
An adaptation of #blacklivesmatter — the Twitter hashtag that went viral in the wake of the grand jury decisions in the police killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner on Staten Island — #muslimlivesmatter has at its core a similar demand: for attention to deaths that might have been avoided; for respect, from the mainstream media, and justice, from law enforcement in the United States.
The investigation of the deaths, on Tuesday evening near the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, is just beginning. The police said Wednesday that they believed the crime “was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking,” but statements from the authorities have also made it clear that they will be investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime.
On Twitter, the debate — filled with invective, anger and frustration — has already begun. Here are some of the popular Twitter posts being shared around the world with #muslimlivesmatter
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White people just can't take the thought of a ? being different from them smh.
R.I.P. to the deceased.
Thats why the lowest beings on earth. a monkey is superior to a white person. -
They deserved it. All Muslims are evil terrorist. At some point they were going to carry out a suicide bombing anyways. This was just a preemptive strike.
I'm pleasantly surprised by the reactions my post. Well done people. I thought our American media and posters like Zombie had poisoned the well.
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They are trying to spin this and say it may have been over a parking dispute.
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Merge.....
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Fox News....matter of fact....right wing conservative media....as a whole has blood on their hands
Won't nothing change because the other news channels are afraid to call out FOXNEWS. They're responsible for these deaths along with the uptick of hate directed at Obama and black people in general.
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Muslims better foh with this ? make up your own slogan.
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All whites with the last name Hicks that I know in NC are racist pos, no lie
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I know Bosnian Muslims who look like the typical American white.
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All whites with the last name Hicks that I know in NC are racist pos, no lie
You right about that.
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With how much propaganda is made against Muslims, I'm not surprised.
