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Yusor Abu-Salha

Yusor Abu-Salha had been admitted to UNC's School of Dentistry for the fall of 2015. She had married Deah Barakat, a dental student, about six weeks before her death. On February 10, 2015, she, Barakat and her 19-year-old sister Razan were shot and killed at their condominium in Chapel Hill. About 2,000 people gathered for a vigil in the Pit the next day.

Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: A call for unity

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February 10, 2015 Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha are killed in Chapel Hill On February 10, 2015, a neighbor shot and killed Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, in the couple's Chapel Hill condominium. He pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in June 2019 and received three consecutive life sentences without parole. People: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, Razan Abu-SalhaWUNC: North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty To Killing 3 Muslim Students (June 12, 2019)
February 11, 2015 About 2,000 people hold a vigil in UNC's Pit for Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha The day after the three were killed, an estimated 2,000 people gathered at the Pit on the UNC campus. Speakers included Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke, Deah's brother Farris Barakat, Chancellors Carol L. Folt and Randy Woodson, and Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt. People: Razan Abu-Salha, Carol L. Folt, Mark Kleinschmidt, Yusor Abu-Salha, Deah Barakat Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Abdullah Antepli, Farris Barakat, Randy WoodsonUNC-Chapel Hill, University Gazette: A call for unity (February 12, 2015)
June 2015 UNC and the Dental Foundation of North Carolina set up the Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha Memorial Award The university and the Dental Foundation of North Carolina established a memorial award in the names of Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha, to be presented for the first time in the 2015-16 academic year. People: Carol L. Folt, Yusor Abu-Salha, Deah Barakat Place: Chapel HillUNC General Alumni Association: Memorial Award Set Up Honoring Slain Students (June 23, 2015)
September 17, 2015 UNC dental students hold the first DEAH DAY of service More than 350 students of the UNC School of Dentistry gave nearly 1,200 hours to 22 local organizations, from Habitat for Humanity in Efland to Table in Carrboro, in memory of Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha. DEAH DAY stands for Directing Efforts And Honoring Deah And Yusor, and the school was still holding it in 2024. People: Yusor Abu-Salha, Deah Barakat Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: UNC School of DentistryUNC-Chapel Hill: Volunteering to honor a legacy (September 17, 2015)

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Deah Barakat 2 entries, including Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha are killed in Chapel Hill (February 10, 2015)

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36 seconds : portrait of a hate crime

Albaba, Tarek · 2023 · Video Project

A documentary film by Tarek Albaba on the 2015 killing of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha in Chapel Hill, produced by Video Project in 2023 and issued from San Francisco. It concerns hate crimes against Muslims and Arab Americans in Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Abu-Salha, Yusor, -2015.

UNC

The story of a hate crime : what led to the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill?

Talbot, Margaret, 1961- · 2015 · Condé Nast

Margaret Talbot's 2015 magazine article on the killing of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, Deah Barakat and Razan and Yusor Abu-Salha, published in New York by Condé Nast. It reports on what led to the February 2015 murders near the university and on the treatment of the case as a hate crime.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Abu-Salha, Yusor, -2015.

UNC

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UNC remembers the lives of three Muslim American students who were murdered in 2015The Daily Tar Heel UNC’s student newspaper, reporting from the day and its archive
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