Grand Jury Indicts Suspect in Shooting Deaths of 3 Muslims in Chapel Hill
The day after several thousand people marched in Qatar to show solidarity with the families of three Muslim-Americans killed last week in Chapel Hill, a Durham County grand jury handed up indictments against the man accused of killing them.
The grand jury, which meets in private and only hears a brief description of the evidence in cases, charged Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, with three counts of murder and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling.
Hicks, a Chapel Hill resident who was enrolled in a paralegal program at Durham Technical Community College, has been housed in North Carolina’s Central Prison in Raleigh since his arrest Tuesday night for what authorities said was “safekeeping.”
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