Three muslim american students were shot in their homes at Chapel Hill in North Carolina on February 10, 2015. According to a local police the suspect has been arrested.
Police states that Craig Stephen Hicks was charged and arrested for killing these three Muslim students.
The suspect appeared in court saying that he understood all the charges according to the Associated Press, and he has already turned himself in after the shooting.
Deah Shady Barakat a 23-year-old with his wife Yusor Mohammed a 21-year-old and her sister Razan Mohammed a 19-year-old were identified as the three victims.
The father of the two girls stated on a local TV station that his daughter always told him that they had a neighbour who was very "hateful" and their sister said she has seen this man with a gun on him in his waistband several times.
The father also said that they have lived a clean life and never gave them a single bad day, and he adds that they have raised them to love their country and all the people in it and that now everybody is heartbroken.
The university adds that Deah Barakat was studying dentistry and was in second year only, his wife was planning on starting in autumn and her sister was an architecture student at North Carolina State University.
Family members, neighbours and friends shared their pictures on social media after incident.
#ChapelHillShooting was the hashtag used in the online community to criticise the US and other Western media for not covering anything about the shooting.
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