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February 11, 2015

Suspect Charged for Fatal Shooting of 3 Muslim Students in North Carolina 
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Three Muslim students have been shot dead in an apparent hate crime at
the University of North Carolina. The victims were killed Tuesday night
when a gunman opened fire at a residential complex in Chapel Hill. They
have been identified as 23-year-old Deah Barakat, his 21-year-old wife
Yusor Mohammad, and her sister 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. A
suspect, Craig Stephen Hicks, has been arrested and charged with three
counts of first-degree murder. Hicks had made online posts declaring
himself a supporter of the group "Atheists for Equality." The hashtag
#Chapel Hill Shooting has spread across social media with Internet users
criticizing what they call a lack of national media coverage of the
shooting.

 

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