Chapel Hill Mourns After Young Muslims Gunned Down

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Thousands gathered to mourn Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammed and her sister Razan Mohammed Abu-Salha at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.

Image: Dentistry students and others huddle together during a vigil

Dentistry students and others huddle together during a vigil at the University of North Carolina following the murders of three Muslim students on February 11, 2015 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after the February 10, 2015 slayings in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill which sparked outrage amongst Muslims worldwide. Police investigating the murders said they were studying whether the fatal shootings were religiously motivated, as calls mounted for the killings to be treated as a hate crime. AFP PHOTO / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty ImagesAFP - Getty Images

Feb. 12, 2015, 2:11 AM EST

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