Craig Hicks, shooter three US Muslim students, declared itself as an anti-theist, or a staunch opponent of religious belief. (Reuters/Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer)
North Carolina - initial court against perpetrators of the shooting attack three Muslim students at Chapel Hill, Craig Stephen Hicks, will be held in March 2015.
Reported USA Today, police are still trying to determine whether the sentiment of religion played a role in the killing Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and sister Yusor, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, on Tuesday (10/2) ago .
Hicks, 46, who immediately surrendered to police shortly after launching a shooting attack at home Barakat, said the event was triggered by bickering neighbors scramble parking lot.
Hicks wife, Karen Hicks, confirmed this claim and states the incident was not related to religious hatred.
"He was very respectful of the rights of others. The killing has nothing to do with religion or belief victims," Karen said, quoted by USA Today, Thursday (12/2).
Although defending claims her husband, on the same day, she filed divorce papers from her husband.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Abu-Salha, the father of two female victims, said that the News & Observer that the killer showed signs of hate crimes based on religion and culture.
"This is not a dispute over a parking lot, this is a hate crime. This man has been at odds with my daughter and her husband several times before, and he spoke with a gun in his belt. And they are not comfortable with him, but they did not know he would be valid so far, "Abu-Salha who is also a psychiatrist in Clayton.
Hicks describes himself as an atheist man on his Facebook account. The neighbor said he always looks angry and confrontational.
Hicks appeared in court on Wednesday (11/2) on charges of first-degree murder. Police aware of the incident from a telephone line 911 which stated they heard gunshots 5 to 10 times, and was followed by the sound of people screaming.
Thousands of people attended the funeral
More than 5.000 mourners attended the funeral of the victims in North Carolina, USA on Friday (13/2).
Previously, the event in memory of the victims were held in a mosque on Thursday (12/2), followed by thousands of people had to be moved to the University of North Carolina athletic fields, where the victims of education.
Before starting the prayer bodies, families and friends in memory of the victims in the mosque of the Islamic Association Releigh, where the victims and their families usual pilgrimage prayer.
Thousands of people want to join in the prayers of the congregation, led to the prayer made up into a field that is located opposite the mosque.
(CNN Indonesia)
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