Triple-murder by shooting,[1][2] execution-style murders, home invasion
Weapons
Sig Sauer P229 .357-caliber semi-automatic handgun[3]
Deaths
3[4]
Perpetrator
Craig Stephen Hicks[5]
Verdict
Pleaded guilty
Convictions
First-degree murder (3 counts)
Sentence
Three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole
On February 10, 2015, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were killed in their home in Finley Forest Condominiums on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Barakat was a second-year student in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, his wife Yusor was a North Carolina State University (NCSU) graduate planning to enter UNC Dentistry School in the fall, and her sister Razan was a student at NCSU majoring in architecture and environmental design.[6]
Their neighbor, Craig Stephen Hicks, who killed the three people in a single attack,[7] turned himself in to Chapel Hill police later that day and was arrested.[8][9][10][11] On February 10, the Chapel Hill Police Department stated that their "preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking. Hicks is cooperating with investigators." Hicks was charged with three counts of first-degree murder.[12]
On February 16, Hicks was indicted by a Durham County grand jury on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice also launched their own investigations into the shooting.[13][14] Federal authorities could not find sufficient evidence to charge Hicks with a hate crime.[15][16] The trial was scheduled to take place in the summer of 2019.[17] On June 12, 2019, Hicks pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment.[16][18][19]
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^ ab"North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty To Killing 3 Muslim Students". WUNC. June 12, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^Grubb, Tammy (April 11, 2019). "Durham DA will not pursue death penalty against man charged in Muslim students' deaths". The News & Observer. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
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