Man who killed three Muslims gets life in prison in US
Craig Hicks pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the murder of three MuslimsWASHINGTON: An American who killed three Muslims in February 2015 out of what police first called a parking dispute but now admit was driven by hate has been sentenced to life in prison. Craig Hicks, 50, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the murder of Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, in their Chapel Hill, North Carolina home. The state has no laws to charge hate crimes and Hicks was charged with three counts of capital murder. It was only after the sentencing hearing on Wednesday that the police chief of the university town admitted the case involved much more than a simmering parking dispute. Razan Abu-Salha was an architecture student at North Carolina State University.
Source: The Express Tribune June 13, 2019 16:07 UTC
