Trystan Terrell: Who is UNC Charlotte shooting suspect?

"I just went into a classroom and shot the guys," the suspect, Trystan Andrew Terrell, told reporters Tuesday as officers led him away in handcuffs.

He was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday at 1 p.m. , according to WCNC-TV.

Two of the victims who were hurt are from the Triangle: Drew Pescaro, 19, and Sean Dehart, 20, both of Apex. The other two victims who were injured have been identified as Rami Alramadhan, 20, of Saudi Arabia, and Emily Houpt, 23, of Charlotte.

Pescaro was out of surgery and recovering on Wednesday, WCNC reported. A Facebook account that appears to belong to Pescaro shows that he is a Middle Creek High School graduate who lives in Apex. .

The two victims who died were pronounced dead at the scene. They have been identified as Ellis Parlier, 19, of Midland, and Riley Howell, 21, of Waynesville.

People reacting to the sound of gunshots and a campus alert scrambled to find safe spaces and endured a lengthy lockdown as officers secured the campus on the last day of classes. Hundreds were later marched out of buildings with their hands in the air before officers determined that the suspect appeared to have acted alone.

A vigil was planned for Wednesday, and the governor vowed a hard look to see what can be done to prevent future attacks.

"A student should not have to fear for his or her life when they are on our campuses," Gov. Roy Cooper said. "Parents should not have to worry about their students when they send them off to school. And I know that this violence has to stop. ... In the coming days we will take a hard look at all of this to see what we need to do going forward."

Campus Police Chief Jeff Baker said authorities received a call in the late afternoon that someone with a pistol had shot several students. Officers assembling nearby for a concert rushed to the classroom building and arrested the gunman in the room where the shooting took place.

"Our officers' actions definitely saved lives," Baker said at a news conference.

Two people were killed, and three remained in critical condition late Tuesday. Baker said a fourth person's injuries were less serious. Students were among the victims, but officials would not say how many.

The suspect's grandfather, Paul Rold of Arlington, Texas, said Terrell and his father moved to Charlotte from the Dallas area about two years ago after his mother died. Terrell taught himself French and Portuguese with the help of a language learning program his grandfather bought him and was attending UNC-Charlotte, Rold said. But Terrell never showed any interest in guns or other weapons, and the news he may have been involved in a mass shooting was stunning, said Rold, who had not heard about the Charlotte attack before being contacted by an Associated Press reporter.

"You're describing someone foreign to me," Rold said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. "This is not in his DNA."

The shooting prompted a lockdown and caused panic across campus. Aerial shots from local television news outlets showed police officers running toward a building, while another view showed students running on a campus sidewalk.

The university has more than 26,500 students and 3,000 faculty and staff. The campus is northeast of the city center and is surrounded by residential areas.

Spenser Gray, a junior, said she was watching another student's presentation in a nearby campus building when the alert about the shooting popped up on everyone's computer screens.

She said she panicked: "We had no idea where he was ... so we were just expecting them at any moment coming into the classroom."

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Associated Press writers Martha Waggoner and Emery Dalesio in Raleigh contributed to this report.