Shooting

After a UNC-Chapel Hill professor was killed on Monday, faculty chair Beth Moracco shares how professors are reflecting on what happened and preparing to return to class.

UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Tailei Qi, who has been charged with first-degree murder of his faculty advisor, Zijie Yan, was denied bond in court Tuesday.

Police are searching for both the weapon and the motive in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that left one faculty member dead and prompted an hours-long lockdown.

Police said a shooter killed a faculty member in a science building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday, August 28, 2023 after a lockdown that paralyzed the campus community as authorities searched for the suspect.

Emergency sirens sounded about two minutes after a 911 caller reported gunfire around 1 p.m. at the laboratory in the heart of campus, UNC Police Chief Brian James said at a press conference Monday evening.

Rob Steele, the fiance of Mary Marshall, one of five people killed in the Oct. 13, 2022, Raleigh shooting rampage, announced that he will run for an at-large seat on the council.

A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl's family — another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.

EnergyUnited says that an alarm early Tuesday alerted it to an equipment problem at the substation in Randolph County, north of Charlotte. It said that crews found damage to the substation from an apparent gunshot.

“The security and reliability of the nation’s electric grid is one of FERC’s top priorities,” FERC Chairman Richard Glick said at a commission meeting Thursday.

Duke Energy said it found no sign of property damage at a hydropower station in South Carolina where gunfire was reported nearby.