Important Takeaways:
- North Carolina university shooting victim is identified as academic advisor who worked with Wuhan-educated gunman on his physics PhD course – as suspect is charged with first-degree murder
- UNC grad student Tailei Qi has been charged for first degree murder over Monday’s shooting at the campus
- His academic advisor Zijie Yan was shot dead in the shooting
- Qi and Yan wrote several academic papers together over the last years
- The shooting sent the UNC-Chapel Hill campus into lockdown.
- During a press conference on Monday evening, investigators said that they had not yet discovered a motive behind the shooting.
- But a series of concerning social media posts have been unearthed, in which Qi complained about his UNC colleagues and slammed bullies at the school.
- The graduate student previously studied at Wuhan University in 2015, and was studying at the Department of Applied Physical Sciences.
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