Chapel Hill, N.C. — A construction worker was shot with a BB gun Saturday while working on at a Franklin Street student housing unit near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
A crew of workers were on scaffolding five floors up of West Granville Tower, 123 W. Franklin St., when someone shot at them from a window. The worker was hit in the ear. His injury was not serious, police said.
Chapel Hill police were investigating the incident to identify which room the BB came from and who fired the shot. The person responsible could face assault charges, a police spokesman said.
The privately-owned Granville Towers serves as an off-campus residence facility for UNC students.
Construction worker shot with BB gun at off-campus UNC housing
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March 30, 2009 10:37 a.m.
When I was a student at UNC, living on campus, there was construction just outside my dorm starting at 7am M-F and 8am on weekends. One Sat. morning a police officer knocked on my door - someone on my side of the building have thrown a full soda can at the workers, hitting someone in the head.
For some reason students feel they are entitled to complete silence whenever (and wherever) they are sleeping. It's incredibly ironic considering how loud they can be when they aren't sleeping even if they rest of the building/neighborhood is.
March 30, 2009 9:57 a.m.
March 30, 2009 9:28 a.m.