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The victims were named as Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife
Yusor Mohammad, 21 and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill was arrested and charged
with three counts of first-degree murder, according to a
statement on the school's alert website.
The police have offered no motive for the killings. The hashtag
#MuslimLivesMatter was trending nationally on Twitter early on
Wednesday, with many postings discussing the shooting.
The school statement said police responded to a report of
gunshots at 5:11 p.m. local time and found the three victims,
who were all pronounced dead at the scene.
The university said that Barakat was a second-year student at
its dentistry school, his wife was planning on starting there in
the fall, while her sister was a student at North Carolina State
University.
Hicks is being held at the Durham County Jail, the statement
said.
Further information was not immediately available.
(This story corrects spelling of victim's name to Abu-Salha in
paragraph 2)
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by
Crispian Balmer)
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