Chapel Hill police said Wednesday morning that a dispute about parking in the neighborhood of rented condominiums near Meadowmont may have led Craig Stephen Hicks to shoot his neighbors, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh.
But the women’s father, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who has a psychiatry practice in Clayton, said regardless of the precise trigger Tuesday night, Hicks’ underlying animosity toward Barakat and Abu-Salha was based on their religion and culture. Abu-Salha said police told him Hicks shot the three inside their apartment.
“It was execution style, a bullet in every head,” Abu-Salha said Wednesday morning. “This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far.”
Abu-Salha said his daughter who lived next door to Hicks wore a Muslim head scarf and told her family a week ago that she had “a hateful neighbor.”
“Honest to God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,'” he said.
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Police charged Hicks with three counts of first-degree murder.
“Our preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking,” said police spokesman Lt. Joshua Mecimore. “Hicks is cooperating with investigators.”
It turns out the killer is an Atheist extremist — it doesn’t surprise me, considering the fervour and intolerance some Atheists display towards those with religious beliefs. Extremists come in all forms. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...ate-crime.html
I could totally understand killing three people over a parking spot. Not.
The alleged killer was a car parts salesman who was studying to become a paralegal.
We sometimes foreget the influence of our culture on our behavior:
(Reuters).
The foreigner trance of bad culture puts out all kinds of anti-Muslim hatred which has an influence on weak heads (whether religious or not).
I’d love to know if he had a steady daily diet of FOX, Hannity, Limbaugh. It would be interesting to find that out. Sometimes I flick on FOX, Hannity, Limbaugh, and I find you cannot go 10 seconds on any of them without hearing something about Muslims.