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Tailei Qi, 34, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and having a gun on educational property in Monday's killing of Zijie Yan inside of a science building at University of North Carolina, the state's flagship public university.
Read information that may be helpful in answering questions about the Aug. 28, 2023, incident on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
The 34-year-old suspect was arrested during a roughly three-hour lockdown that followed the shooting, authorities said at a Monday news conference.
A graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a faculty member. What happened: Zijie Yan, an associate professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, was shot to death shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday. The incident, which occurred at Caudill Laboratories — a chemistry studies building — resulted in an hours-long lockdown.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - A judge on Tuesday ordered a University of North Carolina graduate student held witho...