Tailei Qi has been arrested and charged for the deadly shooting at the University of North Carolina on Monday.
The shooter who caused a massive lockdown at the University of North Carolina on Monday was identified by court and jail records shooting death of a University of North Carolina faculty adviserTailei Qi, an applied physics PhD student originally from Wuhan, China, was identified as the suspect by court documents and jail records.
Qi was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and bringing a gun into an educational facility. He is being held at the Orange County Detention Center.Law enforcement surround UNC’s bell tower during the campus lockdown on Monday Heavily armed officers patrol the UNC campus ‘We certainly want the opportunity to interview the suspect,’ said UNC Police Chief Brian James. ‘To actually have the suspect in custody gives us an opportunity to figure out the why.’‘I would have never guessed that he would be the kind of person who could possibly be capable of this kind of thing,’ he told the local station.
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