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Events scheduled tonight (Feb. 11) to remember slain students
(Chapel Hill, N.C. – Feb. 11, 2015) – Members of the media are invited to join representatives from Triangle universities and leaders from the community to remember the three students killed yesterday in Chapel Hill. Deah Barakat, a student in the UNC School of Dentistry, and his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, who had planned to begin her dental studies at Carolina next fall, were killed last night, along with Yusor’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, an undergraduate at North Carolina State University.
5:30 p.m., Press Conference
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Triangle university and community leaders expected to participate in the media availability include:
- Imam Abdullah Antepli, Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs and Adjunct Faculty of Islamic Studies, Duke University
- Carol L. Folt, Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Randy Woodson, Chancellor, N.C. State University
- Debra Saunders-White, Chancellor, N.C. Central University
- Larry Moneta, Vice President for Student Affairs, Duke University
- Mark Kleinschmidt, Mayor, Town of Chapel Hill
- Jane Weintraub, Dean, UNC School of Dentistry
6 p.m., Prayer Service (NOT OPEN TO MEDIA)
Great Hall, Frank Porter Graham Student Union
A prayer service led by Imam Abdullah will be held in the Great Hall of the Carolina Student Union. Both Muslim and non-Muslim members of the community are invited to attend. This event will be closed to the media.
6:30 p.m., Vigil
The Pit
Campus and community leaders will join students, faculty, staff and others at a public vigil. The vigil will celebrate and honor the lives of these three students and appeal to the communities for calm. As a show of unity, representatives from N.C. State, N.C. Central, Duke universities and the local community have been invited and are expected to attend.
Parking: Print reporters and still photographers should park in the Bell Tower Lot. Limited parking for satellite trucks is available in metered spaces in the Davis Library lot. Media may not lay cable through the Pit.
Audio: A multbox will be provided at the press conference and the vigil.
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Communications and Public Affairs contact: Rick White, (919) 999-0773, rick.white@unc.edu