By Albert Lin
Members of a North Carolina community are mourning the deaths of three Muslim students who were shot and killed by a white man, with some calling the Chapel Hill murders a hate crime.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; Barakat’s wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19. Barakat was a grad student in dentistry at the University of North Carolina, his wife of six weeks planned to enroll in the same program this fall, and her sister was a student at nearby North Carolina State University.
