46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks of Chapel Hill, NC has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting death of three Muslim students at the Finley Forrest condominium complex near the University of North Carolina campus at a little after 5 p.m. yesterday afternoon.
Information on the murdered students via the News & Observer:
Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh.
Barakat is a doctoral student in UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Dentistry. The sisters are N.C. State University students. Chapel Hill police found all three victims dead at the scene, after responding to a report of gunshots on Summerwalk Circle at 5:11 p.m. Tuesday.
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Police worked early into the morning trying to piece together what happened. Police have not offered a motive for the shootings.
Twitter users are using the hashtags #ChapelHillShooting and #MuslimLivesMatter, currently the No. 2 and No. 4 nationally trending topics respectively, to express their grief as well as their anger at the MSM for a perceived lack of coverage of the story:
#ChapelHillShooting 3 young MuslimAmericans killed by American Sniper#Douma_Exterminated 1000 Syrians burnt by Assad pic.twitter.com/fSw0pvesY0
— Tarek Abou Ghazala (@tarekmd) February 11, 2015
The fact that twitter is doing a better job of covering the #ChapelHillShooting than the media is massively concerning. Why no headlines?
— Lily Bailey (@LilyBaileyUK) February 11, 2015
If you ever needed to know what the medias agenda is regarding Islam, their silence over #ChapelHillShooting should probably tell you.
— Gareth Icke ?? (@garethicke) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/EdhiAbdulSattar/status/565476331098750978
#ChapelHillShooting and western media bigotry http://t.co/d8zKlcATY6 via @AJEnglish pic.twitter.com/cUcWtYQH2J
— Joe Catron (@jncatron) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/ChrisJohnMilly/status/565462337537445890
If not for Twitter, we wouldn't have heard of this. Where are the mainstream media? #chapelhillshootings #MuslimLivesMatter
— PurpleSilk (@HoliH1) February 11, 2015
Mainstream media is not reporting it. Let's ask about this. Let's talk about it. Don't let them sweep it under the rug. #MuslimLivesMatter
— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015
It does look, however, that the MSM is covering the story this morning:
So sad RT @NewDay: 3 Muslim students shot dead in an apartment near @UNC: http://t.co/W8p764NVMV #ChapelHillShooting pic.twitter.com/wCgcZbFdgm
— Jennifer Westhoven (@JenWesthoven) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/TelegraphNews/status/565472927454621699
3 Muslim students shot to death in Chapel Hill, NC. Did their faith play a role in the killing? http://t.co/RnyNmuquTT #ChapelHillShooting
— CNN International (@cnni) February 11, 2015
Police arrest man in #ChapelHillShooting that killed 3 http://t.co/QcKMzXZhs1
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) February 11, 2015
#ChapelHillShooting suspect condemned all religions on Facebook prior to 'Muslim mass-murder' http://t.co/PwmBigR96s pic.twitter.com/Z6XdW9ANZe
— The Independent (@Independent) February 11, 2015
Updates to follow.
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