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A parking dispute???
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 Sheriffs 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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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)these days
MADem
(135,425 posts)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
(14,732 posts)reasons.
lame54
(35,326 posts)the guy turned himself in - did he confess the whole story?
enough with the maybe's
blm
(113,101 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)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
(16,093 posts)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
(48 posts)His Facebook Likes page looks to be all Progressive stuff. This isn't going to play well.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Saucepan of Kerbango
(48 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Try again
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Saucepan of Kerbango
(48 posts)The link I used was apparently the Facebook page of the shooter in question. If you consider that to be the media, alrighty, then.
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Saucepan of Kerbango
(48 posts)Which is why I tried to caveat the thing. I've no idea if that's actually his page. Frankly, I hope not.
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,621 posts)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
(22,920 posts)If you think you might, some sort of help with that anger issue may be in order.
malaise
(269,187 posts)I doubt it
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)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
(269,187 posts)after the break