Three college students killed in Chapel Hill shooting; 46-year-old man charged

A 46-year-old Chapel Hill man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three people were shot and killed Tuesday evening at a condominium complex on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, authorities said. Craig Stephen Hicks turned himself in to the Chatham County Sheriff's Office in Pittsboro following the shooting, which happened in the Finley Forest complex off Barbee Chapel Road shortly after 5 p.m.

Posted 2/11/2015, 10:37:09 AM Updated 9/23/2025, 7:50:39 PM

>> WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS IN

CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING

DEATH OF THREE PEOPLE AT A

CHAPEL HILL APARTMENT COMPLEX.

>> POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED THE

VICTIMS AND THE SUSPECT.

46-YEAR-OLD CRAIG HICKS IS

CHARGED.

WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OVERNIGHT.

TARA?

>> WELL, IT WAS JUST ABOUT 2:30

THIS MORNING SO ONLY TWO HOURS

AGO THAT THEY REALIZED HIS NAME

AND HIS CHARGES AND THE NAMES

OF THE VICTIMS.

HE'S BEING HELD HERE.

HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW THIS

MORNING SO FAR ABOUT THOSE

THREE PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT AND

KILLED.

23-YEAR-OLD DAYA BEARACUT.

HIS WIFE.

SHE'S LISTED AS AN NC STATE

STUDENT AND 19-YEAR-OLD RASAN

MOHAMMED.

A SOPHOMORE AT NC STATE SHE WAS

A GRANT OF ATHENS STRIDE HIGH

SCHOOL BUT WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW

IS WHY THEY WERE KILLED.

THEY WERE ALL SHOT IN THE HEAD.

WE WERE THERE AT OFFICERS

ESCORTED THE SUSPECT HICKS TO

THE DURHAM COUNTY JAIL.

WHILE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AT

A CHAPEL HILL ADDRESS, THE

LOCATION IS ACTUALLY RIGHT ON

THE DURHAM-ORANGE COUNTY LINE

AND THAT'S WHY HE'S BEING

PROCESSING HERE IN DURHAM

COUNTY.

THE SHOOTING HAPPENED AT THE

FINDLAY FORECAST COMPLEX.

THIS IS NEAR HIGHWAY 54.

JUST ABOUT A MILE FROM THE

CAMPUS.

THEY DID SEND OUT AN ALERT AND

WILL HAVE COUNSELORS FOR THOSE

STUDENT PS WHO MAY BE SHAKEN UP

BY THIS AND, OF COURSE, AS I

HAD MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY WE DO

KNOW THAT THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS

SHOT AND KILLED WAS A DENTAL

STUDENT.

HICKS IS BEING HELD WITHOUT

BOND.

THERE'S A LOT MORE INFORMATION

THAT WE'RE WORKING TO FIGURE

OUT THIS MORNING.

WE WILL BRING YOU THOSE DETAILS

AS SOON AS WE FIND OUT.

BACK TO YOU.

>> ALL RIGHT.

TARA LYNN LIVE.

THANKS FOR THE LATEST.

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