This is one time I wish a shooting were a hoax; however, that does not appear to be the case here:
"Apparent parking dispute sparks killing of 3 ‘selfless’ students" by Jonathan M. Katz and Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times | February 12 2015
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - A 46-year-old man was charged with the fatal shooting of three students at a quiet condominium complex near the University of North Carolina campus, the police said Wednesday, in what may have been a lethal escalation of a neighborhood parking dispute.
The shooting, which left three Muslim students dead, occurred Tuesday around 5 p.m. and according to two 911 calls that came in just after the incident, five to 10 shots had been fired.
I suppose these are the kinds of things you are going to have in a culture steeped in Zionist values and programming. Remember the guy in Florida who shot kids over loud music?
The three victims, one man and two women, were of Arab descent, and photos on Facebook show the two women wearing head scarves, leading to speculation on Twitter and Facebook, much of it with the hashtag #muslimlivesmatter, that the killings might have been a hate crime.
What killing is not? I mean, the Orwellian discussion around all these terms is frustrating enough; however, one can not help but notice how this is not a hate crime. Those, apparently, are reserved for Jewish victims.
But a statement released by the Chapel Hill Police Department said, "Our preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking," adding that the suspect, Craig Stephen Hicks, was "cooperating with investigators."
The Chapel Hill police chief, Chris Blue, acknowledged the speculation about a possible hate crime.
"We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated," Blue said in a statement, "and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case."
The dead included a newlywed couple, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, all of whom were high-achieving students. Barakat was in his second-year in the graduate school of dentistry at the University of North Carolina, and his wife planned to enroll there in the fall. Razan Abu-Salha was an undergraduate at North Carolina State University.
They were mourned immediately around the world by Muslims who woke up to see news of the killings and expressed outrage at the loss of life, and the lack of news coverage overnight in the United States.
Not surprising there, and the lack of coverage does not go unnoticed in these quarters. Had the victims been Jewish it would have been a different story.
Wajahat Ali, writer and co-host of Al-Jazeera America's The Stream, who knows the family of one of the victims, described them as exemplary, Muslim-American success stories.
"The family is educated; these young people were exuberant, selfless, dedicated to local, national and international relief efforts," Ali said. "These were three bright young stars, not only in the Muslim community, but in America. This should not be seen as a tragedy and loss just for the Muslim community; it should be seen as a tragic loss for the American community, and the international community."
It is.
Ali added that the reaction around the world had been not only an "overwhelming and fierce outpouring of pain" but also anger over a perceived double-standard, which gave rise to the hashtag #muslimlivesmatter.
It is not just perceived, it is the reality, and yes, Muslim lives do matter and millions of them have been taken by EUSsrael based on lies and deceit.
Several tweets making the rounds worldwide asked whether coverage would have been different had the shooter and the victims' roles been reversed; if the shooter were a Muslim, and the victims were not.
It would have, and that is also a good point. It would have been called terrorism.
Hicks and the students were neighbors.
He lived in a ground-floor unit in the two-story condominium complex, tucked into the woods on Summerwalk Circle, about a mile and a half east of the main University of North Carolina campus. It appeared that Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha lived in a second-floor unit in the same building.
Residents at the building said parking there was often complicated.
Some residents had stickers allowing them to park in reserved spaces, and others did not, and requests for people to move their cars were not uncommon.
Shadi Wehbe, 33, who has lived in the housing complex since starting at the University of North Carolina in 1999, said he believed he had had a brief interaction about two weeks ago with one of the women who was killed, when she came and nicely asked him to move his car.
"She said, 'Is that your beautiful car right there?' I said, 'Yes it is,'" Wehbe recalled.
The woman told him it was one space over from where it should be, and he happily moved it.
Wehbe, a Christian of Lebanese descent, said it was possible that there were multiple motives to the shooting.
"This may have started from a parking incident and turned into something else," he said.
The police said they responded to a report of shots fired in the area of Summerwalk Circle at 5:11 p.m. Tuesday, but they did not specify where the bodies were found. Hicks was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and according to news reports, appeared in court in Durham on Wednesday morning.
The Associated Press reported that state Chief District Judge Marcia H. Morey ordered Hicks, in shackles and wearing an orange jumpsuit, to be held without bond.
On Hicks' Facebook page, he describes himself as a former auto parts dealer who has studied to be a paralegal, and he appears to be an ardent critic of religion. He expressed support for groups like Atheists for Equality, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
Yeah, let's tar the doubters and atheists now.
Last month, he posted a photo that says, "Praying is pointless, useless, narcissistic, arrogant, and lazy; just like the imaginary god you pray to."
He also posted a photo of what he said was his .38-caliber, five-shot revolver.
Where today's print copy ended, and it's starting to smell like a psyop.
The news of the killings spread quickly through the Muslim community worldwide, with many expressing grief and outrage.
The Facebook pages of Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha showed that they were married Dec. 27, and that he was active in using his dental skills for charitable work. A website with him narrating a video says he and other dental students planned to go to Turkey this summer to provide dental care to refugees from the civil war in Syria. His most recent Facebook post, from Jan. 29, says, "Tonight we provided free dental supplies and food to over 75 homeless people in downtown Durham!"
Oh, my, they truly were good-hearted kids!
Friends and family members created a Facebook page, Our Three Winners, to share memories and photos of the slain students.
Several of the Facebook posts showed images of Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha at their wedding. Others highlighted Razan Abu-Salha's artistic talents, noting that she had won an award from North Carolina State University for capturing 3-D abstract model-making with time-lapse video.
"Based on the brutal nature of this crime, the past anti-religion statements of the alleged perpetrator, the religious attire of two of the victims, and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to quickly address speculation of a possible bias motive in this case," Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement.
The University of North Carolina issued a statement saying that it was "sensitive to the impact an incident of this nature has on campus and in the community" and would make counseling available to students.
"We understand you want to know the facts as quickly as possible," the university said. But "we must respect the job our Chapel Hill police have as they investigate this crime."
The chancellor of the university, Carol L. Folt, was expected to make a statement Wednesday.
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The web version:
"3 Muslim students killed in N.C. shooting; neighbor arrested" by Jonathan M. Katz and Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times February 12, 2015
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It was a little after 5 p.m., a quiet time in a quiet neighborhood, before many people had returned home from work Tuesday, when two women called 911 to report multiple gunshots and screams echoing through a condominium complex here near the University of North Carolina.
By the time the police arrived, three people were dead — a newlywed couple and the woman’s sister. They were university students, Muslims of Arab descent, and high achievers who regularly volunteered in the area. A neighbor, a middle-age white man, was missing — then under arrest and charged with three counts of murder.
The victims’ families described it as a hate crime.
As opposed to a love crime?
The police said that the shooting appeared to be motivated by “an ongoing neighborhood dispute over parking” but that they were investigating whether religious hatred contributed to the killing.
“To have him come in here and shoot three different innocent people in their head — I don’t know what kind of person that is,” said Namee Barakat, the father of the male victim, Deah Shaddy Barakat.
The killings immediately set off a debate around the world on whether the students had been targeted because of their religion, with Muslims picking up some of the language of those who protested police shootings, using the phrase #muslimlivesmatter.
Those protests have died down, or at least the pre$$ coverage has. Narrative has changed to poor police under assault.
Even as Chapel Hill awoke Wednesday, frustration had spread on Twitter across Europe and Asia, as Muslims as far away as Indonesia shared details of the victims’ lives.
The Chapel Hill police attempted to curb the fears, releasing a morning statement that identified parking as the cause of the dispute, without confirming whether the victims were shot in the head.
So the cover up is already in place, and it was about more than parking.
The police chief, Chris Blue, also added: “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.”
In the afternoon, Ripley Rand, the US attorney for the region, also said the shooting appeared to be “an isolated incident” and was “not part of a targeted campaign against Muslims.”
Right, not part of a greater problem like antisemitism is every time something happens to a Jew anywhere in the world.
Friends and neighbors struggled to make sense of what occurred. Those who knew the victims — identified as Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; her husband, Barakat, 23; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19 — said they were all model students.
They had run into previous problems about parking with the man who was arrested, Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, an ex-car parts salesman studying to be a paralegal.
They lived on opposite sides of the Finley Forest complex on Summerwalk Circle, where the shooting occurred — a complex tucked into the woods. Residents said Hicks’ apartment was adjacent the main parking lot; the students lived on the other side, where little parking could be found.
Mohammad Yousif Abu-Salha, the father of the two women who were killed, said Yusor had told him that she and her husband had been harassed for their appearance by a neighbor who was wearing a gun on his belt. On his Facebook page, Hicks recently posted a photo of what he said was his .38-caliber, five-shot revolver.
A friend of Yusor said she knew that Hicks had complained to the couple before, about making noise and their visitors using parking spaces, and that he once came to their door carrying a rifle.
It is not clear if they called the police about the incidents.
They probably didn't want to do that, and here in AmeriKa I think you can understand why given the attitude of AmeriKan police towards people. This Zionist-run society with all it's Muslim-hating Islamaphobia and desire to keep wars going certainly has to be part of it, too.
Their Facebook pages and other material online show a cheerful trio who were devoted to family and charitable work.
In other words, they were model Muslims.
Barakat was a second-year student at the university’s graduate school of dentistry, and his wife was set to enroll in the same school later this year. Her sister was an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, who had recently won an award for her artistic talents.
“They were gems of their communities, and left a lasting impression on the people around them,” Suzanne Barakat, a sister of Deah Barakat, said Wednesday, reading a statement flanked by several family members.
Hicks appeared to have a deep dislike of all religion. On his Facebook page, nearly all of his posts expressed support for atheism, criticism of Christian conservatives or both.
In other words, he was an intolerant asshole (that coming from someone who has soured on religion four the most part).
Last month, he posted a photo that said, “Praying is pointless, useless, narcissistic, arrogant, and lazy; just like the imaginary god you pray to.”
Hicks’ wife, Karen, insisted at a news conference that her husband was not a bigot. “I can say with absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion or the victims’ faith, but it was related to a longstanding parking dispute that my husband had with the neighbors,” she said.
Related:
(Yeah, it doesn’t matter what you look like or what religion you follow, just so long as you don’t take his parking space. If you do that, this champion of human rights will follow you to your apartment and kill everyone in the place execution style… even if they’re a newlywed couple or a 19-year-old girl. What a fucking humanitarian he is.)
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Notice also how that web article skipped over their recent charity action, too.
Related: Chapel Hill Shooting: Did USA Today Cartoon Contribute to This?
Also see: Driving to the Hoop
The Dean is needed now.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Funeral, prayer services held for 3 killed in N.C. shooting" by Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press February 13, 2015
RALEIGH, N.C. — More than 5,000 people gathered for funeral and prayer services Thursday for three young adults gunned down in what police call a long-running dispute over parking spaces.
The crowd was so large it had to be moved from a mosque to a nearby university athletic field. The deaths of a newlywed Muslim couple and the wife’s sister had quickly gained international attention, with some questioning whether the violence had some connection to their faith.
Something never questioned when the victim is Jewish! It is automatically implied.
Charged with three counts of first-degree murder is Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, who has described himself as a ‘‘gun-toting’’ atheist.
Neighbors describe him as angry and confrontational. His former wife said he was obsessed with the 1993 shooting-rampage movie ‘‘Falling Down’’ and showed ‘‘no compassion at all’’ for other people.
?????????
That is not at all what I was told yesterday!!!
His current wife, Karen Hicks, said her husband ‘‘champions the rights of others’’ and that the killings ‘‘had nothing do with religion or the victims’ faith.’’ She then issued another brief statement, saying she is divorcing him.
That's a hell of a character reference.
Mohammad Yousif Abu-Salha said his daughter ‘‘felt that he was hateful and he did not like them, who they were, and the way they looked.’’
He also said he had urged law enforcement to look beyond their explanation of the parking spat in the complex where two of the victims and the suspect lived.
‘‘This is not a parking dispute,’’ he said. ‘‘These children were executed with shots in the back of the head.’’
Police have said they are not commenting on evidence in the case, including manner of death.
‘‘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,’’ Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said in an e-mail Wednesday.
Several people who knew the victims spoke about them at a Wednesday night vigil, describing selflessness and kindness.
Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, were newlyweds who helped the homeless and raised money to help Syrian refugees in Turkey. They met while helping to run the Muslim Student Association at N.C. State before he began pursuing an advanced degree in dentistry at UNC....
Hicks, his wife said, was unemployed and driving a 15-year-old car, had been studying to become a paralegal.
A Second Amendment rights advocate with a concealed weapons permit, Hicks often complained about organized religion on Facebook.
Something doesn't feel right about this guy. Feels to much like a propaganda psyop.
A Chapel Hill charade?
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