\"Our preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over parking,\" Chapel Hill Police said in a statement. \"Hicks is cooperating with investigators and more information may be released at a later time.\"
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PHOTO: Karen Hicks and attorney Rob Maitland said Craig Hicks had an ongoing dispute with neighbors and the homeowners’ association about parking.
Police earlier said they were investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime. All three victims were Muslim.
Duke University’s Imam Abdullah Antepli said, “This may or may not be a hate crime,” adding that authorities have been “extremely helpful and supportive.”
U.S. Attorney in North Carolina Ripley Rand said, \"We don't have any information that this was a targeted campaign against Muslims in North Carolina.”
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PHOTO: Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, enters the Durham County courtroom, Feb. 11, 2015, in Durham, N.C.
Two of the victims -- Deah Barakat, 23, a second-year student in UNC's School of Dentistry, and Yusor Mohammad, 21, a prospective dental student -- were married. Mohammad's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, was a sophomore at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and was visiting her sister and brother-in-law, according to Deah Barakat's father.
Gunshots were reported after 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Finley Forest condominiums in Chapel Hill, east of the University of North Carolina campus.
Farris Barakat, Deah Barakat's brother, said Hicks had confronted his brother previously about a dispute over a parking space, adding that he never heard Hicks make any anti-Muslim remarks.
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PHOTO: Authorities are at the scene of a fatal shooting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Feb. 10, 2015.
When Farris Barakat had visited his brother, Hicks had yelled at him, telling him he was parking in the wrong space, Farris Barakat told ABC News. Farris Barakat added that he tried to respond in a calm manner, not wanting to upset Hicks further, and said his brother also treated Hicks in a respectful manner.
Hicks showed up at Barakat and Mohammad's home in the past with a gun on his belt, and Mohammad had confided that she was afraid of Hicks, Farris Barakat said. The two joked that maybe she should get a gun, he added.
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PHOTO: The victims were identified as Deah Barakat, 23; his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19.
The nation's largest Muslim civil rights organization, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, requested law enforcement authorities address speculation about a possible bias motive in the homicide.
Information about the shooting was heavily shared on social media, fueling hashtags such as #MuslimLivesMatter and #ChapelHillShooting to trend across the United States.
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Namee Barakat, right, wipes away tears as he and his wife, Layla, left, watch photos projected on a screen during a vigil for his son, daughter-in-law and her sister, who were killed near UNC-Chapel Hill, Feb. 11, 2015, in Chapel Hill, N.C.
