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Volume 122, Issue 151

Thursday, February 12, 2015

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Triangle university students and community members gathered in the Pit on Wednesday night to mourn the deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

A TRIPLE TRAGEDY

Police say theyre investigating whether Tuesdays homicide was a hate crime
By Holly West
City Editor

More than 36 hours after the shooting deaths

of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad AbuSalha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, there
are still more questions than answers.
The three were shot and killed on Tuesday
afternoon at Finley Forest Condominiums in
Chapel Hill.
Police responded to 272 Summerwalk Circle
after two people called 911 just after 5 p.m. and
reported hearing shots fired in the neighborhood.
All three were declared dead at the scene.
Barakat, 23, and Yusor Mohammad AbuSalha, 21, who were married on Dec. 27, lived at
the residence.
Barakat was a second-year dentistry student at
UNC. Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha was planning
to enroll at the school in the fall.
Her sister, 19-year-old Razan Mohammad AbuSalha, was a sophomore at N.C. State University
studying environmental design and architecture.
Chapel Hill resident Craig Stephen Hicks
turned himself in to a Chatham County deputy
sheriff Tuesday night, said Chatham County Chief
Deputy Mike Roberson.
Hicks was charged with three counts of firstdegree murder. At his arraignment at the Durham

I think we would all

encourage people to
not have those feelings
pushing toward hate but
toward cooperation

He beat me home
Thousands met in the
Pit to remember those
killed in the shooting.
By Claire Nielsen
Assistant City Editor

In the 15 minutes before the vigil

honoring the victims of Tuesdays
shooting, it was impossibly quiet.
Thousands of students, friends
and community members filled
the Pit, the crowd stretching far

Deah Shaddy
Barakat was a
second-year student
in the UNC School
of Dentistry. He had
just married Yusor
Mohammed AbuSalha in December.

toward cooperation and understanding and love.

County Detention Facility on Wednesday morning, his next appearance in court was scheduled
Thats really what Deah and Yusor and Razan
for March 4.
would have wanted.
Though little is known about Hicks motives,
Neither Chapel Hill police nor Durham County
Chapel Hill police have said their investigation
District Attorney Roger Echols could say whether
suggests the killings might have been related
or not the evidence suggests the crime was motivated by anti-Muslim sentiments.
to ongoing disputes about parking between the
I havent ruled out anything or ruled in anyneighbors.
thing, Echols said. Its very preliminary. I dont
But some people believe the killing was about
have all the facts.
much more than parking.
Chapel Hill Mayor Mark
Many people, including
Kleinschmidt said that whatthose who knew the victims,
ever Hicks true motivation
said they worry the three
was, the killing will never
students were targeted
make sense.
because they were Muslim.
What happened was an
Were not scared to say
irrational, unreasonable
that it could have been
response to a conflict, he
a hate crime, said Asad
said. Its nothing that you or
Ahmad, a friend who
Maryam Ahmed,
I or any other Chapel Hillian
played basketball with
a longtime friend of the Abu-Salha sisters
I know would do in response
Barakat.
to a conflict. I think thats
Maryam Ahmed, a longtime friend of the Abu-Salha sisters and a student why were struggling right now.
at Meredith College, has a harder time categorizWhile many members of the community are
ing what happened.
outraged, others are calling for peace.
The tragedy is so great that were not even
Farris Barakat, Deah Shaddy Barakats older
thinking of words to label it, she said.
brother who spoke at the vigil, asked attendees to
I think we would all encourage people to
not have those feelings pushing toward hate but
SEE HOMICIDE, PAGE 4

back into the quad. And not one

person said a word.
Instead, they turned their
faces, many lit by candlelight,
upward toward the smiles that
were flickering on a screen in
the Pit. Deah Shaddy Barakat,
his wife Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha and her sister Razan
Mohammad Abu-Salha were shot
and killed Tuesday at the off-campus Finley Forest neighborhood.
Sophomore Omar Rezk, who
said he knew Barakat personally,
said while members of the com-

munity are mourning an enormous

loss, he takes comfort in knowing
the family is now in heaven.
All of us belong to God, and
to Him we will return, he said,
quoting a verse that is often said
when a member of the Muslim
community dies.
This idea was emphasized
almost every time someone close to
one of the victims got up to speak.
Deah Shaddy Barakats older
brother, Farris Barakat, called on

SEE VIGIL, PAGE 4

Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha was
supposed to enroll
in the UNC School of
Dentistry in the fall.
She married Deah
Shaddy Barakat in
December.
Razan Mohammad
Abu-Salha was a
sophomore at N.C.
State University.
She was Yusor
Mohammed AbuSalhas younger
sister.

Social media fuels

tragedy coverage
Tweets about Tuesdays
triple homicide trended
worldwide.
By Meg Garner
Senior Writer

It was only six hours after Chapel

Hill Police Department released the

names of the victims in Tuesdays triple

homicide, and #ChapelHillShooting
had been tweeted an estimated 685,200
times by 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
By 10 a.m., #MuslimLivesMatter had
been tweeted almost 82,200 times.
Social media fueled international
news coverage of the shooting at Finley
Forest Condominiums that claimed

SEE SOCIAL MEDIA, PAGE 4

Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.

SURAT AL-BAQARAH 2:156

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Someone vandalized
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between 8 a.m. and 6:12
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reports.
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reports.
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

I have a dream, one day to have a unified

and structured community. Have a voice in our
society and support the youth with their project.
- Deah Shaddy Barakat

Deah. Yusor. Razan.

COURTESY OF AYESHA AHMAD PHOTOGRAPHY

COURTESY OF AYESHA AHMAD PHOTOGRAPHY

COURTESY OF THE ABU-SALHA FAMILY

People really Everything she She was loving,

loved the guy said had a light she was kind
By Zoe Schaver

By Kerry Lengyel

By Kerry Lengyel

Assistant City Editor

Assistant City Editor

Assistant City Editor

The deeds Deah Shaddy Barakat did for others could

be as massive as raising thousands of dollars for the dental
health of Syrian refugees or as simple and sweet as surprising a friend with a toy helicopter hed never had as a kid.
He was all about doing good, said Deahs lifelong
friend Amir Jabr. Weve lost that good.
Deah, who was shot and killed at the Finley Forest
Condominium complex on Tuesday, was a second-year
dental student at the UNC School of Dentistry and the
founder of the fundraising effort Syrian Dental Relief, a
group aimed at providing quality dental care to people in
Syrian refugee camps.
He was one of those people that just had that fire, and
he loved what he did. He loved it so much, said Maryam
Ahmed, a close friend of Deahs.
Jabr said Deah was strong-willed and driven to succeed
in his dental career.
He made a decision to go to dental school his junior
year of undergrad, and by then it was kind of too late to
apply, Jabr said. He did everything he had to do he
took night classes, he practiced the (Dental Admission
Test) all by himself and he found a way to apply just
because he wanted it that bad.
Asad Ahmad, a friend who played basketball with
Deah, said he had a calming presence but that his passion
was tangible.
When you talked to him, his eyes were always really
intense. He was a very fiery guy, but at the same time
he always kept a level head, he said. People really
loved the guy.
Abdul Salem, who had been a friend of Deahs for several years, said he was the type of person who was the first
to know everyones big news, good or bad.
I felt like he was the kind of guy who everybody felt
like he was their best friend. He just had that effect on
people, he said. He made everyone in the room feel like
they were important.
Deah was married to Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha on
Dec. 27. Salem said the two were a textbook match.
They loved each other and not in the classic, Thats
a little much, get a room sense. They just made the other
person light up, Salem said. They were great together.
The combination of them was even better than the great
things you heard about them separately.
As of Wednesday night, Deahs nonprofit had raised
more than $175,000 or $155,000 more than its goal.
Today, Ive reached for my phone so many times to text
him, said Deahs brother, Farris Barakat during a vigil in
the Pit. I just really wish he was here to see it all.

There are little things Amira Ata will always remember

about Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha.
She was always eating something sweet. She liked pancakes and waffles at any time of day. She was the slowest
and safest driver out of all of their friends. And she looked
beautiful on her wedding day.
Yusor married Deah Shaddy Barakat on Dec. 27. Both
were killed in a shooting Tuesday night in the Finley
Forest Condominium complex in Chapel Hill.
A 21-year-old graduate of N.C. State University,
Yusor studied human biology and had recently been
admitted into the UNC School of Dentistry.
She was planning to start in August, joining her husband there.
Ata had known Yusor since third grade, and theyd
been inseparable ever since, staying in school together
through college.
Yusor volunteered with Project: Refugee Smiles, a program through which she traveled to Turkey and helped
provide dental care to people in need.
Before she left, Ata and her students held a drive to collect toothbrushes and packages of dental floss for Yusor to
take on her trip.
She loved kids so much. They love her back, Ata said.
When Yusor returned from Turkey, she brought cupcakes back to the school for all of Atas students and she
left an impression.
Even my students today they were messaging me
saying, We miss her so much already, Ata said.
Maryam Ahmed, president of the Muslim Student
Association at Meredith College, said Yusor had the most
gentle demeanor and calming presence.
I just remember spending time with her, Ahmed said.
She was one of those people where everything she said
had a light behind it. She never said a bad word about
anyone.
Ahmed said it was always a pleasure to be around
Yusor.
In high school, I was talking to her about finals,
Ahmed said. She was so comforting. She said, I know
you can do this. I know we can all achieve.
Along with her husband, Yusor was a part of the founding team of the United Muslim Relief s community chapter in the Triangle.
At a vigil held at UNC on Wednesday night, Nada
Salem said she and Yusor were supposed to start dental
school together.
After our first hangout, we knew that it was meant to
be, Salem said. She was our sister. She was family.

Doha Hindi knew Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha for 14

years, and she had expected to know her for 60 more.
She would spend hours in her design studio trying to
compete with deadlines, Hindi said. And then she would
go home on the weekends, wake up early in the morning
and go to downtown Raleigh and provide food for people
who were homeless.
Those who knew Razan, who was killed in a shooting Tuesday night, described her as innocent and kind.
Friends gathered at a vigil in the Pit on Wednesday to
remember her for her creative spirit and aspirations.
A sophomore at N.C. State University, the 19-year-old
was studying architecture and environmental design.
She was so creative, she did so many awesome things,
Maryam Ahmed said.
Photography, artistry She had that eye. She saw
things with such a beautiful angle.
She had a popular blog on which she wrote about her
love of photography and art.
Yasmine Inaya, a friend of Razans, said she saw
Razan at least twice a week, and they texted each other
every day.
Razan was a girl of many talents. She had a smile
that could light a whole room, and her compassion and
strength showed us the importance of giving back, Inaya
said. She was the greatest friend I could ever ask for. She
was loving, she was kind and she was always assuring.
Razan was a graphic designer for the Triangle chapter of United Muslim Relief, a charity organization that
works in both the U.S. and Syria.
Ismail Ibrahim said Razan was in the process of brainstorming new ways to help eradicate poverty because
that was her passion. She was planning to start doing
resume-building workshops with people who were unemployed so theyd be able to find jobs.
He said she had a dream of teaching art to people who
were homeless so that they could sell their work and earn
enough money to make a living.
Ibrahim said she was also the head of a monthly event
that gathered as a group to distribute donated food to
people in need in Raleigh.
Deema Al-Ghandour, another of Razans best friends,
said she met Razan back in first grade and remembers
playing with her on the monkey bars every day.
In middle school and high school, when you saw her
smile, everyone would smile because Razan was in the
room, Al-Ghandour said.
We would make silly dance videos together, have
sleepovers and eat French toast.

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Information gradually released to students, community after triple homicide in Chapel Hill

After police received reports of gunshots on Tuesday evening and found three people dead at the scene, students did not receive the first Alert Carolina message for two hours. Chancellor Carol Folt did not send an email to students until Wednesday morning.

1:57 a.m.

7:11 p.m.

5:11 p.m.

The first Alert Carolina

message is sent to students
to notify them of
the triple homicide.

Chapel Hill Police receive

reports of gunshots in the
Summerwalk area.

6 P.M.
Tuesday
5:20 p.m.
Police check in on the
scene at Finley Forest
Condominiums. Three people
are pronounced dead
at the scene.
COMPILED BY PAIGE LADISIC

Police announce the names of

the three victims in a press
release as Deah Barakat, Yusor
Mohammad Abu-Salha, and
Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.
They also release the name
of the man charged with the
shooting, Craig Stephen Hicks.

Police say in a press

release that the shooting
might have stemmed from
an ongoing dispute
over parking.

12 A.M.
Wednesday
11:01 p.m.

A second Alert Carolina

message states there is no
ongoing danger
to the community.

10 a.m.

9:32 a.m.

Hicks is scheduled to appear

for an arraignment hearing
at the Durham County Courthouse.
He is arraigned on three counts
of first-degree murder and is
being held without bond.

11:56 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

Chancellor Carol Folt

sends her first email
to students in
response to the
shooting.

A campus-wide vigil
is held in the Pit
in memory of the
three victims.

6 A.M.

3:35 a.m.
A third Alert Carolina
message is sent,
identifying the victims.
The message identifies Barakat
as a second-year dentistry
student at UNC.

5:35 p.m.
Folt and other
community leaders
speak at a news
conference about
the shooting.

12 P.M.
9:58 a.m.
A fourth Alert Carolina
message is sent, including
the Chapel Hill Police
press release that was
released at 9:32 a.m.

6 P.M.
3 p.m.

11 a.m.

Chapel Hill Mayor Mark

Kleinschmidt releases a
statement.

Karen Hicks, the wife

of the accused shooter,
talks to the media
and says this incident had
nothing to do with religion.

6 p.m.
The UNC Muslim
Students Association
holds a special call to prayer
for the three victims.
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VIGIL

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refrain from responding to

violence with more violence.
Do not fight fire with fire,
he said. Do not reply to ignorance with ignorance.
He said the victims would
have wanted community members to carry on the values by
which they lived their lives.
They technically arent
angels, but they sure acted
like it sometimes, he said.
I plead that you live in
their legacy.
News of the students death
was met with shock by those
in the UNC and Chapel Hill
community.
It was the saddest, most
heartbreaking and incomprehensible day, said UNC
Chancellor Carol Folt.
Such an act of violence
goes against the very fiber of
our community and society.
Folt addressed concerns
that the crime was motivated by students religious
affiliation.
It also creates a sense of
vulnerability for all of us,
especially members of the
Muslim community, she said.
I am in touch with the
Muslim community and students and will continue to be
in conversation with them.
While the Chapel Hill police
continue to gather facts,
Carolina has and will remain
focused on supporting all
members of our community.
Omar Alsaidi, who knew
the victims, said he would
caution against drawing con-

clusions before the investigation is complete.

I think this is a great show
of solidarity, but I think its
unfortunate that people tried
to drive it toward a religious
issue before the facts are out,
he said.
Kleinschmidt said the community should rally around
Muslims and other groups
that feel threatened.
When any community
like this one that represents a
minority group in a community, it becomes marginalizing, it
creates a sense of fear, he said.
The rest of us need to respond
to that with compassion. We
need to step up and do our part
now. Were going to need to be
leaning on each other.

Karen Hicks, Craig Hicks

wife, held a press conference Wednesday afternoon
with lawyers she retained
from Maitland Law Firm in
Chapel Hill.
Robert Maitland, who is
representing Karen Hicks,
emphasized the shooting was
the result of Craig Hicks longtime frustration with parking
at the apartment complex.
In my personal opinion,
this highlights the importance of access to mental
health services, Maitland
said at the press conference.
This isnt normal or within
the range of normal behavior
for someone to shoot three
people over parking.
Maitland said Karen Hicks

has not been in communication with her husband, except

for one text message she
received from him shortly
after the shooting.
Maitland said Craig Hicks
had a long-standing issue
with the Finley Forest neighborhoods parking regulations, which Craig Hicks
attempted to address with the
homeowner association.
Its our belief that this had
nothing to do with any kind
of particular relationship with
those victims, he said. Mr.
Hicks had a problem with
many of those neighbors. It
had nothing to do with these
particular neighbors.

attendees to trust in God

even during tragedy.
Praise be to God. We
say that in good and in bad,
knowing that God is the most
wise. We depend on God the
wise in this time, he said.
Like many of the speakers
at the vigil, Farris Barakat
emphasized the charitable
and pious life that Deah
Barakat and his wife lived.
He pleaded with the crowd,
asking that they live by the legacy left by each of the victims.
These three individuals
lived an amazing life, he said.
We lost three great citizens of
this world and of this country.
Omid Safi, director of
Duke Universitys Islamic
Studies Center, also shared
his thoughts at the vigil.
As we face this ugly, horrible reality, there are things
we can do and things we cannot do, he said.
Safi said students can take
comfort in imagining the lives
the victims could have led.
We can join the families
in their grief and hold them
in our prayers and thoughts.
We can take part in fulfilling their dreams: they were
all proud Syrian Americans,
proud Muslim Americans, he
said. Lets fulfill their dreams
they wanted to change the
world. Lets pray in every language. Lets pray in action.
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt
said Chapel Hill is a compassionate, peace-loving town.
And the three victims embod-

SOCIAL MEDIA

provide some sense of comfort to the grieving families.

it was created Wednesday

morning.

the lives of three Triangle

area students Deah Shaddy
Barakat, Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha and Razan
Mohammad Abu-Salha.
From tweets to Facebook
posts, the world attempted to

Messages of love

Association, said he hopes

that once the official investigation is complete, students
and the victims families will
have the answers they are
looking for. But for now, disbelief is the only thing they
can rely on.
Were all very shaken,
Oerderni said. Everybody is
still in disbelief. These were
three angels, literally angels.
If this was in fact over parking and someone came in and
shot three people in the head
over parking, then, well, I am
just at a loss of words.
On Wednesday night, the
Muslim Student Association
and other campus groups
hosted a candlelit vigil for
the victims in the Pit. The
Facebook invitation for the
event was sent to more than
11,000 people.
At the conclusion of the
program, Muslim Student
Asssociation President
Shamira Lukomwa encouraged students to like the
Our Three Winners
Facebook page, which is
dedicated to the three victims. Lukomwa said the page
would keep everyone up-todate with upcoming memorial plans.
At press time, the page
had about 90,000 likes after

Many social media users

sent messages of condolence.
Ayoub Oerderni, vice
president of the UNCChapel Hill Muslim Student

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People across the world tweeted messages of support and outrage, using the hashtags
#ChapelHillShooting and #MuslimLivesMatter beginning Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Pushing for punishment

But many users also used
their social media platforms
to call for authorities to label
Tuesday nights events a hate
crime.
In response, officials called
for the public to be patient
with law enforcement.
There will be others to
determine to what extent hate
was involved in this, but one
thing I know for sure it
was not an act of love, said
Larry Moneta, vice president
for student affairs at Duke
University.
Abdullah Antepli, chief representative of Muslim affairs
and an adjunct faculty member
in the Islamic Studies Center
at Duke University, echoed
Monetas sentiments.
So this may or may not be
a hate crime, Antepli said.
There is knowledge that
shows it could go either way,
but I think for the safety of the
investigation, we should refrain
as a community or media to
misinform anyone about an
ongoing investigation.
Antepli did say that
the increasing tensions in
American society in relation
to its views on Muslims could
have played a pivotal role in
this tragedy.
Having parents calling me,
both Duke University parents
and Chapel Hill parents, asking me if its safe for them to

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News & Observer that he
believes the crime was motivated by Hicks disdain for his
familys religion.
It was execution style, a
bullet in every head, AbuSalha said in the interview.
This was not a dispute over
a parking space; this was a
hate crime.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on
American-Islamic Relations,
said he hopes investigators do
not write off the potential that
the incident was in fact a hate
crime especially given some
of Hicks posts on Facebook.

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With the anti-Islamic

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right now, with him posting
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us he had threatened them
in the past, and the fact
that two of the victims wore
religious head scarves just
shows there are too many
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investigated before they can
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Hooper also said there
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were motivated by hate.
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believe that a parking dispute
could result in the executionstyle murder of three people,
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ied those values, he said.

They took the values of this
university and this town and
lived them joyously, he said.
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attendees, Kleinschmidt said
he was still grappling with the
reality of what happened.
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why and how something like
this could happen, he said.
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because we miss them, he
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family breakfast.
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in the crowd that the victims
were all living their lives for
God, in anticipation of being
returned to Him.
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want to build on the bridge;
you want to build when you
get there, he said.
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seem like the victims are
gone, they have actually finally made it to where theyre
supposed to be.
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He beat me home.

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Thousands gather in the Pit on Wednesday night. There were several speakers including UNC Chancellor Carol Folt, N.C. State Chancellor Randy Woodson and Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt.

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Condominiums when the gunshots rang out. Hours
for video footage of
later, police would confirm what neighbors feared
Wednesdays vigil.
three people were shot and killed in the small complex,
which is located near the Friday Center and is mostly home to families and graduate students.
Craig Stephen Hicks was charged overnight with three counts of first-degree murder for
the slayings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad
Abu-Salha.
Deah Shaddy Barakat was a second-year student in the UNC School of Dentistry.
His wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha was admitted into the UNC School of Dentistry
and planned to begin studying there in the fall. Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, Yusor
Mohammad Abu-Salhas sister, was a sophomore at N.C. State University, where she was
studying environmental design and architecture.
Chapel Hill police said the crime was likely the result of an ongoing parking dispute.
However, the department said its investigating the possibility that this was a hate-motivated
crime. Karen Hicks, Craig Hicks wife, spoke to the media Wednesday afternoon and emphasized that the killings were the result of her husbands longtime frustration with parking in
the complex not the victims religious beliefs. Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were Muslim.
Thousands of students and community members gathered in the Pit on Wednesday to honor
Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

DTH/CHRIS CONWAY
From left: Suzanne, Namee and Layla Barakat attend the vigil held in the Pit for their family members who were shot and killed at Finley Forest Condominiums, which is near the Friday Center.

DTH/JUSTIN PRYOR
The vigil attendees overflow the area surrounding the Pit as they
honor the three students killed in an off-campus shooting.

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UNC junior Ahmad Mosabbeh gives a Quran recitation at the vigil for the commemoration of the
lives of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

DTH/CHRIS GRIFFIN
UNC School of Dentistry students attend the vigil and stand together in the Pit wearing their lab coats on Wednesday evening.

News

Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Daily Tar Heel

Wife paints complex picture of shooter

By Jenny Surane

Craig Hicks
was arrested
and charged
with three
counts of firstdegree murder
for Tuesdays
shooting.

Editor-in-Chief

The first recorded time the

Chapel Hill Police Department
interacted with Craig Hicks
was in December 2013.
At the time, Craig Hicks said
he witnessed a simple assault
in the parking lot of Finley
Forest Condominiums. Craig
Hicks saw someone grab a tow
truck operators arm during an
argument over a towing, said
Lt. Josh Mecimore, a spokesman for the Chapel Hill Police
Department.
Craig Hicks was only
a reporting party in the
December 2013 incident,
Mecimore said.
The next time Chapel Hill
police recorded interacting
with Craig Hicks, officers
were questioning him as a
person of interest in Tuesdays
triple homicide.
Chapel Hill police

charged 46-year-old Craig

Hicks with three counts of
first-degree murder after
Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor
Mohammad Abu-Salha and
Razan Mohammad AbuSalha were shot and killed
at the Finley Forest complex
Tuesday evening.
Craig Hicks turned himself in to law enforcement on
Tuesday and was arraigned
on three separate counts of
first-degree murder at the
Durham County Courthouse
on Wednesday. He will be
appointed a public defender.
Craig Hicks was transferred to Central Prison on

Wednesday afternoon for

safekeeping, according to
reports from WRAL. He is
being held without bond.

Surprise and shock

Carver Weaver, a spokesman for Durham Technical
Community College, said
Craig Hicks had been enrolled
in a paralegal program at the
school since fall 2012.
For the most part, Craig
Hicks had attended the school
part time. He was a full-time
student this semester.
My understanding is that
he was working on a couple of
different certifications at the
same time, Weaver said.
Weaver said the school was
shocked when they heard of
Tuesdays triple homicide.
Surprise and shock, yes,
Weaver said. He was a top
student. He had a 3.88 GPA.
Hes been on the presidents

list, which is our equivalent of

the deans list.
Weaver said Craig Hicks
had never been involved in
any violent incidents at the
community college.
He has no record of any
conflicts or altercations either
with our campus security or
our counseling department,
Weaver said. They didnt
counsel him on anything.

A long-standing dispute
In a press conference
Wednesday, Karen Hicks,
Craig Hicks wife, maintained
that the shooting was the
result of a long-standing
parking dispute at the condominium complex.
The three victims were
Muslim, which led many
people on social media sites
to speculate that the shooting
was a hate-motivated crime.
But Chapel Hill Police Chief

Chris Blue said the initial

investigation suggested the
shooting was motivated by an
ongoing dispute over parking.
Our investigators are
exploring what could have
motivated Mr. Hicks to commit such a senseless and
tragic act, Blue said. 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.
Karen Hicks said she firmly
believes her husbands actions
werent motivated by hate.
We were married for seven
years, and that is one thing
that I do know about him,
she said. He often champions on his Facebook page for
the rights of many.
Craig Hicks Facebook profile picture is a banner that
reads atheists for equality.
In January, he posted a picture that said, I just support

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In the same month, he also
posted a photo of a gun, calling it his loaded 38 revolver.
On Feb. 8, Craig Hicks
shared a photo that compared radical Muslims to
radical Christians.
Karen Hicks looked shaken at Wednesdays press conference, which took place at
her attorneys office on Couch
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Congress questions Alert Carolina

By Sara Salinas
Senior Writer

Student Congress will hold

an emergency meeting Friday
to call for more answers from
police about Tuesdays triple
homicide at an off-campus
condominium complex.
It was a horrifying crime
that was committed, said
Peter McClelland, speaker
pro tempore for Student
Congress. Thats not something were comfortable just
waiting around on a regular
schedule to talk about.
McClelland said the group
will discuss two resolutions
during the meeting: the first is
to send official condolences to
the families of the victims on
behalf of the student body, and
the second to demand answers.
He said the resolution will
call for answers to questions
regarding the timeliness and
effectiveness of the Alert
Carolina system in notifying
students, the motivation for
the triple homicide and the
timeliness of the Chapel Hill
Police Departments response.
McClelland said the resolution will also raise questions
about the delay of the Alert
Carolina system in sending
out emails to students notifying them of the shooting and
failure of the system to send
text messages.
That is something we
definitely need concrete
answers on as soon as pos-

DTH/CLAIRE COLLINS
Student Body President Andrew Powell passes out candles to
students at the vigil for the students killed in a triple homicide.

sible, McClelland said.

This shooting happened
very close to campus, and we
need to be getting the alerts
that we signed up for in a
timely manner.
McClelland said that, as
the branch of student government with the most elected
officials, Student Congress
has a unique role in driving
these conversations.
Kathryn Walker, a candidate for student body president, echoed McClellands
sentiments that elected
campus leaders can play an
important part during times
of tragedy.
Its important to be the
resources for students and
help students to find clarity
and peace in what has happened, she said.

Walker said she had

already decided to suspend
campaigning until Friday but
that the hiatus bears additional importance in light of
Tuesdays shooting.
Houston Summers, another candidate for student body
president, said he wont begin
campaigning again until
Sunday out of respect.
There are no words to
express the devastation that
comes from the tragedy of
such hateful acts of violence,
Summers said in a statement
on Wednesday. I am deeply
saddened and angered by
the events of last night. My
thoughts and prayers go out
to the victims and their close
friends and family.
Walker said she hopes the
campaign hiatus gives stu-

dents time to grieve.

In a statement released
Wednesday, Student Body
President Andrew Powell
highlighted resources
available to students
affected by the incident,
including Counseling and
Psychological Services.
Please reach out to me
if I can provide support in
anyway, and know that more
resources are available for all
students, Powell said.
Powell also called for a full
investigation into the homicides to be completed by the
district attorney, U.S. attorney
and other prosecutors.
Our community will not
tolerate violence, hatred or
bigotry of any form, he said.
McClelland said though
Student Congress is unique
in its number of elected officials, all branches of student
government can contribute
to the campus-wide conversation following Tuesday
nights shooting.
We, along with the (executive) branch, along with
graduate and professional
students, McClelland said.
We all have a role to play.

This shooting happened very close

to campus, and we need to be
getting the alerts we signed up for.
Peter McClelland,
speaker pro tempore of Student Congress

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rather
than
indict

MISADVENTURES
Corey Buhay talks about the
privileges of outdoorsmanship.

Were all very shaken. Everybody is still in

disbelief. These were three angels, literally
angels.

Susan Eggert, on Tuesdays triple homicide at an off-campus complex

Senior environmental studies major

from Greensboro.
Email: nikhil.umesh2@gmail.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY

So sickening. Id like to think the man was

just crazy, but fear that his heart was filled
with unwarranted hate. Senseless.

Nikhil Umesh

ast week The Daily Tar

Heel ran an edition
focusing on issues of
race. It left me with a central
question: Why should one
compromise when talking
about racial justice?
Dont get me wrong Im
happy that The Daily Tar Heel
made the choice to highlight
the Universitys lack of support for students of color and
broader manifestations of
racism in our community. But
racism cannot be confined to
conversations around hollow
terms such as diversity, race
relations and bias, which
obfuscate where power exists
within our social hierarchy.
The disproportionate police
citations and traffic stops of
black folks in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro cannot be scapegoated by the simplistic idea
that all humans have biases,
as Carrboro Police Department
spokesman Chris Atack said.
To say so is to erase the way
our society has been organized
and constructed around antiblackness. It frames the oppressive regime the Black Lives
Matter movement seeks to protest as situated within benevolent and well-intentioned people
rather than institutions.
Akai Gurley, a black man,
was killed in November by
rookie Officer Peter Liang
during a stairwell patrol in
a public housing complex in
Brooklyn. It was announced
Wednesday that Liang will be
charged with manslaughter.
Black lives have always
mattered, and rallying cries to
affirm this truth exist within
an unforeseen danger. Should
we be seeking justice within
the carceral and punitive system that contains and perishes
innumerable black bodies?
Equating indictment and
incarceration with justice is to
effectually state that prisons,
the courts and policing have the
potential to provide justice.
The polices supposed responsibility is to protect and serve.
But who are they serving, and
from whom are those people
being protected? Patrols to
police Native Americans and
black slaves were the forerunners to modern-day law enforcement in the United States. And
given that black people are
incarcerated at nearly six times
the rate of whites, why should
we expect impartiality from the
police themselves?
Eric Garners videotaped killing shows that Obamas $263
million funding for body cameras will not realize justice. The
NYPD patrol guide bars the use
of chokeholds this too was
insufficient to save Garners life.
Black student activists calling
for the renaming of Saunders
Hall is part of a broader push to
re-narrate the histories that all
institutions construct around
their racist legacies.
These movements remind
us that under these same blue
skies of the South, thousands
of black people were lynched.
Police brutality, referred to by
many as modern day lynchings,
represents the devaluation of
black life within the everyday.
Prison abolitionist, activist,
and scholar Angela Davis provides us with a starting point.
Radical simply means
grasping things at the root,
she said.
Taking Davis words to heart,
we must instead indict the institutions that have oppression
blueprinted in their own roots.

The Daily Tar Heel

Humanity reaches
across boundaries

EDITORIAL

Active understanding
To fight
Islamophobia, look
to lives of Muslims.

here are no words to

encompass the magnitude of the tragic
deaths of Deah Shaddy
Barakat, Yusor Mohammad
Abu-Salha and Razan
Mohammad Abu-Salha.
The story is shocking
and terrible, and no statements will ever be enough
to encapsulate what the
loss of these three young
Muslim individuals
means to their friends
and family, as well as to
our larger community.
Yet, in the midst of
this tragedy, we are
reminded of the incredible joy these individuals
provided to those who
knew them. Indeed, the
Facebook page Our
Three Winners recalls
memories of Yusor, Deah
and Razan, and has more
than 80,000 followers
only a day after its creation. From the outpouring of love and support
for the three, it is clear
that their goodness has
left a permanent mark in
this world that no act of
violence can diminish.
In his last public post
on Facebook, Deah is
shown providing meals
and dental supplies to
people without homes in
the Durham community.
Yusor traveled to Turkey
in the summer of 2014 to
provide critical dental care

to refugees of the civil war

in Syria.
Razan was recently featured in a video produced
by N.C. State University
for her remarkable design
abilities. Most importantly,
perhaps, is that many of
the stories shared highlight
the love within this family,
which in late December
celebrated the marriage of
Deah and Yusor.
It is important to note
that despite conclusions
we might draw in private,
no motive has officially
been established beyond
reports of tension over
parking arrangements.
But the visceral grief
the Muslim community is
now experiencing is a fact.
Regardless of the reported
reasons for this tragedy,
we must also recognize
that this event has caused
so much pain for so many
because it represents a
horrific actualization of
the fears that Muslims live
with today.
They are the fears of
being targeted because
of the false stereotypes of
Islamophobes who conflate
Islam with extremism.
These fears are not
unjustified: a 2012 report
by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation noted a
1,600 percent increase in
anti-Muslim hate crimes
in 2001 following 9/11.
One needs only to look
at the lives of Deah, Yusor
and Razan to understand
the stupidity, barbarity
and destructiveness of the

United States collective

distrust of those who practice Islam.
If we want to honor the
memories of Tuesdays
victims, we must consciously seek out and hear
the stories of Muslims in
our communities, which
stand together in opposition to the simplistic
suppositions and bigotry
common to popular discourse and the media.
Rather than expecting
that the grief-stricken
take it upon themselves to
educate others about their
lives and cultures, it must
be the responsibility of all
others to practice active
acceptance and understanding from positions
of privilege.
No Muslim members
of this or any other community deserve to live
with the weight of stereotypes our society too often
chooses to accept.
While we lament that
most of us now learn of
the three because of the
tragedy that has befallen
them, we must always
remember their lives and
honor their memory to
create a more just world
for us all.
If anything good comes
from this atrocity, it will
have been the feeling of
togetherness and understanding of difference that
is being expressed now.
Let us now resolve to use
that feeling to both prevent future violence and as
a response to it.

EDITORS NOTE

A hard line to walk

What we hear and what we can print are different things.

he job of student
journalists is an odd
one. We have minds
that are made for social
media but pens that are held
to the rules of traditional
media.
That means we saw your
tweets and Facebook posts
on Tuesday telling us the
names of the three Triangle
students shot and killed in
the triple homicide. We saw
their photos and the beautiful details about their lives.
But we couldnt print
those names. We couldnt
even investigate the leads.
Because before we begin
calling friends and family asking for comment,
we have to be absolutely
positive that we have correct information. A reporter
shouldnt be the first to
tell a mother that her two
daughters and her son-inlaw were killed.
So we were stuck. We
put this newspaper to bed
with the headline, Three
people dead in Chapel Hill
shooting.
In some ways, that felt
like a disservice to you. We
always want to be transpar-

Jenny Surane
Editor-in-Chief
Business journalism major from
Cornelius
Email: editor@dailytarheel.com

ent about the information

we have and the progress of
our reporting.
In other ways, we knew
we were publishing the only
definitively accurate information we had.
We all woke up the next
day after our incredible
City Editor Holly West stayed
up most of the night fielding
press releases from police
and posting updated information to our website to
angry tweets about media
coverage of the shooting.
Many of you wanted us
to provide proof this was
a crime motivated by the
shooters hatred of Muslims.
Those voices were heard
#ChapelHillShooting quickly

became one of the top

worldwide trends on Twitter.
But the motivation for
the crime has not been confirmed. The Chapel Hill Police
Department is still investigating and saying this shooting
was motivated by an ongoing
parking dispute in the Finley
Forest neighborhood.
Just because police say
something doesnt mean its
irrefutable. But their knowledge of this investigation
is unmatched at this point.
So our updates depend on
theirs until we can prove
otherwise.
It seems stupid to ask for
understanding of us during
a time of such tragedy but
thats what Im here to do.
Understand that we have
to operate on a different
schedule and sometimes
that might mean we cant
fulfill some requests for
information on social media.
Understand that we have
to be fair to everyone. We
cant publish anything thats
remotely libelous.
Weve seen this universitys heartbreak, and we
hope todays issue can be the
beginning of a response.

TO THE EDITOR:
Deah Barakat, a dental
student at the University
of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill, was murdered
Tuesday night along with
his wife and sister-in-law.
Deah Barakat was born
Muslim. I was born Jewish.
Regardless of our heritages,
we became good friends.
Deah enrolled in dental
school at UNC so he could
provide dentistry to poor
children without dental
care. He didnt wait to finish dental school to live his
vision. While still in school
he recently volunteered to
provide dental care to underserved children in North
Carolina. He also planned to
travel to Turkey to provide
dental care to Syrian refugees. He was a lovely, compassionate human being.
Every time he saw me, he
gave me a hug and a smile.
He knew I was Jewish; I
knew he was Muslim. It
didnt matter.
The recent murder of
Jews in Paris saddened but
did not surprise me. Our
people have a long history
of persecution and murder.
Muslims have a similar history including one of recent
genocide in Bosnia. People
of all faiths are individuals.
Some of them, like Deah, are
loving, caring individuals
who seek to make the world
a better place. Others use
religion as dogma to rationalize and gain support for
their own agenda of hate.
I plead to my fellow
American and world citizens
to recognize people as individuals, not as stereotyped
Muslims, Christians, Jews
or political party advocates.
Blame or praise individuals,
not organizations, for their
actions. Deah had a life of
service, family and caring
ahead of him. The world will
suffer by his not being here.
Jay Mosesson
Physical therapist
UNC Hospital Spine
Center

Rename Saunders
after Karen Parker
TO THE EDITOR:
Zora Neale Hurston
was crucial to the Harlem
Renaissance, and her lasting influence in the literary
world is undeniable. But
there are far more appropriate candidates for the
renaming of Saunders Hall.
Specifically, Karen L.
Parker, the first AfricanAmerican female undergraduate student enrolled
at the University. To my
knowledge (and all the factchecking Ive done), Hurston
was never enrolled at the
University, but may have
secretly taken classes taught
by Paul Green, with whom
she developed a close relationship with while teaching
at NCCN starting in 1939.
Parker transferred to
UNC Chapel Hill as a junior
in the fall of 1963. During
her time here she took part
in several civil rights demonstrations (for which she got

arrested twice) and was editor of the UNC Journalist.

She also served on the
Board of Directors of the
General Alumni Association
for some time. The diary she
kept during her time as a
student is available through
Wilson Librarys Southern
Historical Collection, and is
a truly moving piece.
One excerpt that really
struck me was, This is a
beautiful, wonderful place
despite its faults. What
hurts me so much is that
I cannot and will not ever
become a part of it.
For both her involvement
in the Civil Rights Movement
and all her achievements as a
student, we should honor her
by making her name a physical part of the University.
Madison Braswell
Junior
History

Taylor Bates is using

his privilege unfairly
TO THE EDITOR:
While Taylor Bates has
a platform with nearly as
much depth as his opponent Grayson Berger, Bates
continually highlights his
stipend refusal as a selling
point on the campaign.
Bates does not acknowledge the privilege from
which his promise stems.
The Residence Hall
Association President stipend allows the president to
devote the full time required
to their duties without worrying about the financial
ramifications.
While promising to
return the money is Bates
prerogative, students
should choose a candidate
based on their meaningful
platforms, not their economic stability or ability to
refuse compensation.
Courtney Sams
Sophomore
Economics and sociology

Facing tragedy, take

nothing for granted
TO THE EDITOR:
Barely two months into
2015, we have faced so much
tragedy. We lost Stuart
Scott, an inspirational man
who stayed dedicated to the
Carolina Way in spite of his
battle with cancer. We lost
Dean Smith who was a pioneer and giant, a man who
took his dedication to greatness off the basketball court
and into making the world a
better place.
Now, weve lost Deah,
Yusor and Razan, who, by
all accounts, were incredible people. Their loss
highlights the fact that no
matter if we are Tar Heels,
Blue Devils, or part of the
Wolfpack we are all
North Carolinians. It is on
us to honor their memories
by living our lives to the fullest. Honor the Carolina Way
for Stuart and Dean, and
use your skills for good the
way Deah, Yusor and Razan
did. I hope in the coming
months we can all continue
to honor them through our
words and actions.
Murphy Donohue
Senior
History and political
science

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