{"id":3738,"date":"2015-02-11T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2015-02-11T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:50:49","slug":"us-gunman-murders-3-muslim-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/us-gunman-murders-3-muslim-students\/","title":{"rendered":"US gunman murders 3 Muslim students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3Muslim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3739\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3Muslim.jpg\" alt=\"3Muslim\" width=\"391\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3Muslim.jpg 391w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3Muslim-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a>Police have arrested a gunman in the killing of three Muslim students \u2014 including a husband and wife \u2014 in the university town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, US news reports said Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe shooter, identified as Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was being held in Durham County Jail on three counts of first-degree murder, the Chapel Hill News and Observer newspaper and other news outlets said.<br \/>\nThe victims were identified as Chapel Hill residents Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh.<br \/>\nHicks turned himself in after the shooting Tuesday in Chapel Hill, just outside the campus of the University of North Carolina.<br \/>\nReports said Barakat was a second-year student in dentistry there while his wife was planning to begin her dental studies in the fall.<br \/>\nRazan Abu-Salha was a student at North Carolina State University, according to the UNC university newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel.<br \/>\nA Facebook community &#8212; Our Three Winners \u2014 has been set up for posts about the three students.<br \/>\n\u201cDeah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha have returned to their Lord,\u201d the community\u2019s creators state. \u201cThey have set an example in life and in death.\u201d<br \/>\nThe site features a photo of the three smiling at what appears to be graduation ceremony. The women wear Muslim headscarfs, one of them also in a blue graduation cap.<br \/>\nPolice in Chapel Hill have not disclosed a possible motive for the attack. They were not immediately available for comment.<br \/>\nThe police website released a statement confirming the three deaths and saying the department is \u201cquestioning a person of interest in the crime and has reason to believe that there is no ongoing threat to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/us-gunman-murders-3-muslim-students\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a gunman in the killing of three Muslim students \u2014 including a husband and wife \u2014 in the university town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, US news reports said Wednesday. 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