http://www.wral.com/three-killed-in-chapel-hill-shooting-46-year-old-man-charged/14438074/

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"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. 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. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest civil advocacy group for Muslims, called on law enforcement officials Wednesday to address speculation about a motive for the killings. "Based on the brutal nature of this crime, the past anti-religion statements of the alleged perpetrator, the religious attire of two of the victims and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to quickly address speculation of a possible bias motive in this case," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. "Our heartfelt condolences go to the families and loved ones of the victims and to the local community." 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. 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. A memorial page honoring the way the victims lived their lives was started on Facebook early Wednesday. 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. Read more at http://www.wral.com/three-killed-in-chapel-hill-shooting-46-year-old-man-charged/14438074/#kIYgbTuSfpc5Sqk7.99"

2/11/2015 9:09:05 AM

This got posted on another board I'm on out of Britain. The guy posted a New York Daily News article where they describe Hicks as such:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/muslim-family-members-killed-n-man-cops-article-1.2110661

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"Police have not said what might have motivated the killings. The News and Observer reported that Hicks lived in the same neighborhood as the three victims Hicks is a vehement atheist, according to his Facebook page, where he frequently posts anti-religion musings. “Why are radical Christians and radical Muslims so opposed to each others’ influence when they agree about so many ideological issues?” reads a United Atheists of America photo he posted just two days before the murders. Another photo, posted January 20, is of a holstered .38-caliber revolver on a scale with the caption, “Yes, that is 1 pound 5.1 ounces for my loaded 38 revolver, its holster, and five extra rounds in a speedloader.”"

2/11/2015 9:16:13 AM

Yet another good guy with a gun.



[Edited on February 11, 2015 at 9:39 AM. Reason : 2 UNC students, 1 NC State student]

2/11/2015 9:36:47 AM

2/11/2015 9:39:59 AM

They think it was over a parking dispute.

2/11/2015 9:47:41 AM

I think it was because he had a brain problem.

2/11/2015 10:52:15 AM

I seriously doubt this was just about the parking dispute. Either way as mentioned above this post, yes he had a brain problem.

2/11/2015 12:06:54 PM

I'm sure he was just looking for something to drive him over the edge. They're now saying they're not ruling out a hate crime. Well, clearly...

2/11/2015 1:10:25 PM

This was who he killed, three people just trying to make their way through life and do a little good for the world:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/here-are-the-three-victims-of-the-chapel-hill-shooting#.dj2Xxqlzxg

2/11/2015 1:31:56 PM

I don't read Buzzfeed, dude.

2/11/2015 1:45:54 PM

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"I don't read Buzzfeed, dude."

Ok great. I am glad we all know that now.

2/11/2015 2:21:41 PM

Did you click that because you couldn't guess what happens next?

2/11/2015 2:49:08 PM

This makes me so sad.

2/11/2015 2:58:33 PM

^^ha.

The worst development of this clickbait shit, is now news outlets on Facebook do the same shit. And those fuckers who make websites with articles that have about 4 lines of text per page and force you to click 20 times to read the entire thing. Or the one picture per page.

2/11/2015 3:14:02 PM

Really the worst part is that Buzzfeed has an actual 'news' department. How did this happen? Isn't there anything to be learned from Brian Williams of late? We're seriously fucked.

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Wife of the shooter just held a press conference denying the claims of hate crime stirring all afternoon. Whether or not it's true is pretty irrelevant at this point.

2/11/2015 3:17:37 PM

Now that we have derailed the thread, I understand it is often click bait but in this case it was not billed that way. As for Brian Williams he seems to be the only one ever punished for lying about Iraq.

2/11/2015 5:10:38 PM

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"As for Brian Williams he seems to be the only one ever punished for lying about Iraq."

2/11/2015 6:22:52 PM

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"Yet another good guy with a gun."

ok ill bite. just like how when ISIS cuts a dudes head off its just another good guy with a knife

[Edited on February 11, 2015 at 6:58 PM. Reason : j]

2/11/2015 6:58:08 PM

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"Really the worst part is that Buzzfeed has an actual 'news' department. How did this happen?"

Have you not noticed legitimate news using "TMZ is reporting..." ?

2/12/2015 9:23:38 AM

I have no opinions as to whether I can draw my own conclusions about this being a hate crime, but I bet Facebook and the like are insufferable now with droves of people drawing on conclusions, at the very least, for their own self-serving world views, guilts, or whatever else.

Really sick and tired of the news milking these stories and drawing out these political reactionary assholes that can't even be sad about tragedy anymore and just put a notch on their soap box.

2/12/2015 9:57:28 AM

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"ok ill bite. just like how when ISIS cuts a dudes head off its just another good guy with a knife"

I'm unaware of any argument that stipulates a good guy with a knife can stop global terrorism.

2/12/2015 9:57:47 AM