Interview w/ a friend: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/unc-shooting-hate-crime_n_6801582.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

3/9/2015 1:19:07 PM

if anything, that makes it sound like it was nothing other than a parking dispute. Every interaction they ever had was over parking, twice involving a firearm being flashed, and they didn't take the guy seriously? They're trying to make a hate crime out of a situation that simply involved a mentally unstable individual with a fixation on parking spaces.

How does someone knock at your door, tell you to move your car, flash a gun, and you not take that as a serious issue? That should have warranted immediate police involvement, or at the very least talking to the apartment complex about moving.

3/9/2015 1:52:20 PM

Quote :

"How does someone knock at your door, tell you to move your car, flash a gun, and you not take that as a serious issue?"

because it was over a parking spot?

3/9/2015 1:57:03 PM

Then you are really stupid. When someone angry shows your their gun its a threat.

3/9/2015 2:00:39 PM

exactly because he got crazy over a parking spot is the reason the police & apt owners should have been involved.

Yes, its incredibly ridiculous to anyone who thinks logically and rationally about things, but its quite obvious that dude was neither and the victims were too oblivious to take him seriously.

3/9/2015 2:21:06 PM

What a fucked up dude. I live in a place with shared parking and have a concealed carry, but I'll be damned if I ever have confronted a neighbor about anything and thought the proper solution was to flash my piece at them. If anybody did that shit to me I would immediately call the cops. I'm all for the 2nd amendment but fuck that shit.

If he hadn't targeted other people with parking shit and with this anti-religious Facebook rants, I would say hate crime. However it sounds like he was just fucking crazy and hated everybody else. I don't think the openly Islamic perspective helped. But I think parking right next to his spot and having friends over all the time taking up parking spaces were just as exacerbating.

3/9/2015 6:35:16 PM

Quote :

"N. Carolina murders: 2 Muslim students shot with gun held to head RALEIGH, North Carolina: A man charged with killing three Muslim college students appears to have held his gun to the heads of two victims when he pulled the trigger after shooting the first in the doorway, according to autopsies released Wednesday. The reports on the Feb. 10 shootings in Chapel Hill show that 21-year-old Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister, 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, died of contact wounds to the head, indicating the gun was very close or against their scalps. Authorities have said suspect Craig Stephen Hicks got a .357-caliber handgun from his apartment; went to the door of the nearby apartment shared by Yusor Abu-Salha and her husband, 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat; and shot Barakat after verbally confronting him. They say Hicks then went inside and shot the women in the head before shooting Barakat a final time as he left. The autopsies indicate Hicks was standing over the women when he fired the fatal shots because the reports say the older woman was shot in the top of the head, the younger was shot in the upper back of the head, and the bullets traveled downward. Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha also was shot in the front of the hip. Barakat died of multiple gunshot wounds. The autopsy reports said two bullets penetrated his head and two penetrated his chest, he was wounded in the arm, and he had multiple tangential wounds to his hands and head. A judge ruled last month that prosecutors can seek the death penalty against the 46-year-old Hicks, who’s charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Hicks is being held at a state prison in Raleigh pending trial. Police have said Hicks appeared to have been motivated by a long-running dispute over parking spaces at the condominium complex near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But the victims’ families say they were targeted because they were Muslim."

This is fucking crazy... how many times do you need to shoot someone???

He definitely deserves the death penalty.

5/8/2015 2:53:09 AM

yeah, you totally shoot people execution-style over parking spaces

here's hoping someone catches him in prison and saves the taxpayers some money

5/8/2015 1:33:53 PM

There's probably a better thread to put this in, but the owner of Cooper's BBQ put up a sign at the restraunt and is getting threats because of it

http://abc11.com/news/raleigh-eatery-feels-backlash-for-profiling-stance/1184516/

2/4/2016 10:48:31 AM

restraunt patrons need to practice restraint

2/4/2016 11:29:54 AM