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    Three Muslim students killed at North Carolina campus

    Three Muslim students killed at North Carolina campus

    Police arrest suspect after three Muslim Americans are shot dead at University of North Carolina campus.

    11 Feb 2015 13:59 GMT | US, Gun violence

    Friends and family, and online community condemning the murder, shared victims' photos following the incident [Facebook]

    Three American students have been shot to death at a residential complex of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a suspect has been arrested over the incident, according to local police.

    Chapel Hill police told local news outlets that Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was arrested and charged with killing the three Muslim students.


    He is being held at the Durham County Jail, and is expected to make a first court appearance Wednesday morning.


    In a statement posted online, Chapel Hill police said that "preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbour dispute over parking."


    "We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case," the statement said quoting Police Chief Chris Blue.


    Hicks turned himself in after the shooting on Tuesday in Chapel Hill, just outside the campus of the University of North Carolina, AFP news agency reported.


    Police officers responded to a report of shooting at around 5:15pm on Tuesday, and found three people who were pronounced dead at the scene.


    The police website released a statement confirming the three deaths and saying the department is "questioning a person of interest in the crime and has reason to believe that there is no ongoing threat to the public".


    The victims were identified as 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat, his 21-year-old wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, police said.


    Read more: Chapel Hill shooting and western media bigotry


    "I'm kind of in shock. I'm really confused and I have been since 5:30," said Kristen Boling, who lived in the complex where the shooting occurred.


    The university said that Barakat was a second-year student at its dentistry school, his wife was planning on starting there in the fall, while her sister was a student at North Carolina State University.


    Residents told local media that the complex was a peaceful place.


    "It's a very quiet community," Bethany Boring, who lives in the complex, told television station WRAL.


    "It's a lot of graduate and professional students. You know, professionals' families."


    Friends and family and the online community shared photos of the victims via social media after the incident.


    The hashtag #ChapelHillShooting went viral after the incident was reported, many of the tweets criticising the US and other Western media for not covering the shooting.

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/0...093231033.html

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    Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill appears in a police booking photograph provided by the Durham County Sheriff in Durham, North Carolina February 11, 2015.
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    Progressive Atheist Kills 3 Muslim Students, Media Ignores

    9:51 AM 02/11/2015

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    Three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were tragically murdered by a crazed progressive atheist, and the mainstream media is ignoring that fact.

    The victims, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, were shot and killed by Craig Stephen Hicks, 46.


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    No breaking news here !?@CNN @BBCWorld @FOXTV @washingtonpost @NewYorkTimes11 #ChapelHillshooting
    3:37 AM - 11 Feb 2015



    The New York Times reported on the murders and mentioned Hicks’ atheism,but not his politics. CNN did the same, as did The Washington Post.

    Yet even a passive look at his Facebook page would reveal Hicks is not only a rabid atheist, but a passionate progressive.

    A review of the Facebook page of the man charged in these murders, Craig Hicks, shows a consistent themes of anti-religion and progressive causes. Included in his many Facebook “likes” are the Huffington Post, Rachel Maddow, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Freedom from Religion Foundation, Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gay Marriage groups, and a host of anti-conservative/tea party pages.

    Even his atheism, which is beyond dispute, is being dismissed by some in an attempt to blame Christians.
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    Three American Muslim students shot dead near University of North Carolina by Christian terrorist


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    4:47 AM - 11 Feb 2015


    Sean D Sorrentino @sdsorrentino

    Not "Christianist Terrorist." Militant atheist. Read his Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/craig.hicks.967 @MichaelLee2009 #ChapelHillShooting


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    @sdsorrentino It's my understanding that he was baptized as a Christian. Stop making excuses #ChapelHillShooting




    In past mass shootings, the media was quick to attempt to blame conservatives and tea party members– allegations that didn’t pan out. And a frequent CNN and MSNBC guest is already on the case.

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    I dont blame atheism for murder of 3 Muslim Amer students. My focus is the GOP officials+professional anti-Muslim bigots #MuslimLivesMatter
    7:08 AM - 11 Feb 2015
    http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/11/pr...media-ignores/

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    Parking dispute, not bias, triggered triple murder, say NC police

    Published February 11, 2015 FoxNews.com



    NOW PLAYINGPolice: UNC shooting deaths sparked by parking dispute
    The murder of three North Carolina college students was motivated by an ongoing dispute over a parking space, despite widespread speculation the victims were targeted by an avowed atheist because of their Muslim faith, police said.

    Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after turning himself in to police in Chapel Hill overnight. Although a Facebook page in Hicks' name that described him as a supporter of “Atheists for Equality” and blasted “radical Christians and radical Muslims" for causing strife in the world gave prompted rampant suspciion that the crime was motivated by hate, police said Wednesday it was about a parking space at the condominium complex where the murders took place.


    Those killed were Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Raleigh, N.C. resident Razan Abu-Salha, Chapel Hill Police said in a statement.


    Barakat was studying dentistry at the University of North Carolina, while his wife and sister-in-law were attending North Carolina State University, according to the Raleigh News-Observer.


    Chapel Hill police found the victims dead at the scene after responding to a report of gunshots at 5:11 p.m. Tuesday. Hicks is being held at Durham County Jail without bond. All three were shot in the head, authorities said.


    Barakat and Abu-Salha were married Dec. 27, according to the Raleigh News-Observer. She had attended high school in Raleigh, and was on track to graduate from college in December with a degree in biological sciences, according to a North Carolina State University news release. Her sister was studying architecture and environmental design at North Carolina State.


    Barakat, a Syrian-American, had majored in business administration and management at North Carolina State before enrolling at UNC-Chapel Hill two years ago to pursue his doctorate in dental surgery.

    He and his new wife worked for a charity that provided dental care to people in the United States and the Middle East. A Facebook post by Barakat dated Jan. 29 detailed a Durham project that provided dental supplies and food to homeless people this year.


    He and 10 other dental students at the school were scheduled to go to Turkey in the summer, where they were going to treat Syrian refugees as part of a project organized by UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and the Syrian-American Medical Society. Hours after the murders, more than $8,200 had been donated to the online campaign for "Project: Refugee Smiles."


    UNC Chancellor Carol Folt is expected to issue a statement sometime Wednesday. Meanwhile, the school issued a statement.


    "We are sensitive to the impact an incident of this nature has on campus and in the community," the school said. "We understand you want to know the facts as quickly as possible. At the same time, we must respect the job our Chapel Hill police have as they investigate this crime."

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    Self-proclaimed atheist charged in slayings of North Carolina Muslim students

    Father of two victims says triple homicide was a ‘hate crime’

    By Jason Sickles, Yahoo 2 hours ago Yahoo News

    Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, enters the courtroom Wednesday in Durham. (Reuters/Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer)

    The middle-aged white man charged with fatally shooting three young Muslim students near the University of North Carolina is a self-proclaimed atheist whose Facebook page is full of rants.
    “There’s nothing complicated about it, and I have every right to insult a religion that goes out of its way to insult, to judge, and to condemn me as an inadequate human being — which your religion does with self-righteous gusto,” the suspect, Craig Stephen Hicks, wrote on Facebook, without calling out any specific religious doctrine.
    He added: “... the moment that your religion claims any kind of jurisdiction over my experience, you insult me on a level that you can’t even begin to comprehend.”

    For now, Chapel Hill police say they are still investigating and have no evidence of a hate crime. Instead, they believe Tuesday’s killings were sparked by a long-standing dispute over parking spaces at the condominium complex where Hicks and two of the three victims, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, were neighbors. Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, was also slain.

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    A makeshift memorial for the victims at the University of North Carolina. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chris …

    But Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, the women’s father, said Yusor told family members last week that she had “a hateful neighbor” who didn’t like their religion and culture. According to the Raleigh News & Observer, Dr. Abu-Salha, a local psychiatrist, said police told him Hicks shot the three inside their apartment.“It was execution style, a bullet in every head,” the father told the newspaper Wednesday.

    “This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime.

    This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far.”


    Last month, Hicks, 46, posted a photo of a holstered gun sitting on a kitchen scale.


    “Yes, that is 1 pound 5.1 ounces for my loaded 38 revolver, its holster, and five extra rounds in a speedloader,” Hicks wrote with the photo.


    Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha, who were married Dec. 27, lived in the unit next door to Hicks and his wife. The father said his daughter wore a traditional wore a Muslim headscarf.


    “Honest to God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,’” Dr. Abu-Salha told the News & Observer.


    On Wednesday afternoon, Karen Hicks told reporters that her husband didn’t act out of bigotry.


    “I can say that it is my absolute belief that this incident had nothing up do with religion or the victims’ faith, but in fact was related to long-standing parking disputes my husband had with various neighbors regardless of their race, religion or creed,” Karen Hicks said.


    Imad Ahmad, 24, was Barakat’s roommate for more than a year before the slain couple got married. He told the AP that Hicks would knock on their door about once a month to complain that they were parking in one of the spaces designated for visitors.


    “He would come over to the door. Knock on the door and then have a gun on his hip, saying you guys need to not park here,” said Ahmad, recalling that Hicks carried the handgun in a holster.

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    A screen shot of the gun photo Craig Hicks posted to Facebook in January.

    An attorney for Karen Hicks, Michele English, said Craig Hicks had a concealed-weapons permit.In Facebook posts, Hicks’ anti-religious views appeared to target all faiths. Two days before the shootings, he shared a post titled, “Why are radical Christians and radical Muslims so opposed to each others’ influence when they agree about so many ideological issues?”

    Hicks, a paralegal studies student at Durham County Technical College since 2012, also wrote on Facebook that he doesn’t care for political parties, only constitutional rights.


    “Some call me a gun-toting Liberal, others call me an open-minded Conservative,” he posted.


    His interests on Facebook seem to run the gamut from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender causes to Second Amendment rights and sports humor. A day before the shooting, he shared a funny puppy video on his timeline.


    “I don't fall into any category, as I do not follow any decision blindly for a group,” Hicks wrote about himself.


    The Southern Poverty Law Center, a national civil rights organization, told Yahoo News that Hicks is not in its database of known extremists. According to his Facebook page, Hicks is a fan of the Alabama-based hate watchdog group.


    According to public records, Hicks has no previous criminal history.

    On Wednesday, a judge ordered him held without bail on three counts of first-degree murder. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for March 4. Police say Hicks is cooperating with investigators.

    Meanwhile, in a message to residents, the mayor of Chapel Hill tried to calm fears and reassure the community after the deaths.


    “The Chapel Hill Police Department is using all available resources to determine whether hate was a motivating factor,” Mark Kleinschmidt said in a statement. “All we know for certain at this time is that it was a senseless and tragic act surrounding a longstanding dispute.


    “I share strong feelings of outrage and shock with my fellow citizens and University students — as well as concerned people everywhere.

    We do not know whether anti-Muslim bias played a role in this crime, but I do recognize the fear that members of our community may feel. Chapel Hill is a place for everyone, a place where Muslim lives matter.”

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