Chapel Hill police: Parking dispute may have led to triple shooting

[MohRokTah]

A parking dispute???

Chapel Hill police: Parking dispute may have led to triple shooting

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Chapel Hill police said Wednesday that an ongoing dispute over parking may have led to a triple shooting Tuesday night at a condominium complex on Summerwalk Circle.

Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.

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

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Read more at http://www.wral.com/chapel-hill-police-parking-dispute-may-have-led-to-triple-shooting/14438074/#fBPmkZJcyW6HRBLv.99

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. Perhaps just a pretext. He seems to be a very angry person as a rule.

[COLGATE4]

2. Sounds like a perfectly valid reason

these days

[MADem]

5. I honestly wouldn't be shocked if that happened in Boston...!!!

Particularly after someone shoveled out six feet of packed snow from 'their' parking spot and put 'their' chair in said spot to reserve it for when they come home.

I haven't heard any tales of parking spot wars yet...maybe because so many people are still snowed in, or are saying screw it, and leaving their cars parked in pay garages!

[COLGATE4]

8. Yep. People get blown away for the damndest

reasons.

[lame54]

3. these articles are dribbling out info...

the guy turned himself in - did he confess the whole story?

enough with the maybe's

[blm]

4. Perhaps police will ask Hicks if he recently went to the movies.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/05/american_snipers_muslim_problem_how_clint_eastwood_embraces_chris_kyles_toxic_ideas_partner/

[Nye Bevan]

6. Apparently the shooter was a "militant atheist" who wanted all religions to "go away".

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chapel-hill-shooting-gunman-craig-hicks-militant-atheist-who-fantasised-that-religion-would-1487502

I hope that it does turn out to be a parking dispute, as opposed to motivated by a hatred of religion.

[atreides1]

7. I find this a little hard to believe

He murders three people over a parking dispute? Really?

Can't help but wonder if the cops are going to accept that reason, just to avoid having to do a more in depth investigation?

[Saucepan of Kerbango]

9. Ugh

His Facebook Likes page looks to be all Progressive stuff. This isn't going to play well.

[MohRokTah]

10. A picture of his gun is "progressive"?????

[Saucepan of Kerbango]

11. Likes page, assuming this is the guy

https://www.facebook.com/craig.hicks.967/likes

[MohRokTah]

13. Content not found

Try again

[Saucepan of Kerbango]

14. ?

https://www.facebook.com/craig.hicks.967/likes worked just fine for me.

[Saucepan of Kerbango]

16. Uh

The link I used was apparently the Facebook page of the shooter in question. If you consider that to be the media, alrighty, then.

[Saucepan of Kerbango]

18. yeah, concur

Which is why I tried to caveat the thing. I've no idea if that's actually his page. Frankly, I hope not.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. I've been through that.

Had someone handed me a gun at the time, I would have gladly emptied it on the guys who kept parking me in.

Officially, that's inexcusable, but: been there, would have done that.

[OneGrassRoot]

20. Wow. Would you still, if in that same situation?

If you think you might, some sort of help with that anger issue may be in order.

[malaise]

21. Would this have happened if guns weren't so readily available?

I doubt it

[MohRokTah]

22. It's sounding like the police were aware of a long running dispute over parking.

And the guy put a picture of his gun on his facebook page.

So, no, probably wouldn't have happened without the easy access to a gun.

[malaise]

23. It's coming up on GEM$NBComcast

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