NC State vigil calls for celebration of life
It was a candlelit vigil. But in the frigid winds, the candles wouldn’t light.
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It was a candlelit vigil. But in the frigid winds, the candles wouldn’t light.
At Wednesday night’s vigil, family members of Deah Shaddy Barakat urged community members to “move on with dignity.”
WENDELL, N.C. — Under gray and cloudy skies, thousands of people chanted as men carried three caskets.
The 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.
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Karen Hicks — the wife of the man being charged with the death of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill — emphasized her belief that Tuesday's triple homicide was not religiously motivated.
Doha Hindi knew Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha for 14 years, and she had expected to know her for 60 more.
There are little things Amira Ata will always remember about Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha.
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 he’d never had as a kid.
Student Congress will hold an emergency meeting Friday to call for more answers from police about Tuesday’s triple homicide at an off-campus condominium complex.
The first recorded time the Chapel Hill Police Department interacted with Craig Hicks was in December 2013.
More than 36 hours after the shooting deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, there are still more questions than answers.
It was only six hours after Chapel Hill Police Department released the names of the victims in Tuesday’s triple homicide, and #ChapelHillShooting had been tweeted an estimated 685,200 times by 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
In the 15 minutes before the vigil honoring the victims of Tuesday’s shooting, it was impossibly quiet.
THINGS WE KNOW:
UPDATE (10:45 a.m.): Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was arraigned on three counts of first degree murder and is being held in Durham County Jail without bond. He will be appointed a public defender. The district attorney's office has not yet decided if it will pursue capital punishment.