"In no just world should he be able to murder children and not face the words of the families whose lives he has destroyed," Abu-Salha wrote.Tasneem Nashrulla is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Updated at 1:30 p.m. "There was a tweet that said, 'three down, 1.6 billion to go,'" he said.Copyright 2019 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. Looks like your browser doesn't support JavaScript. When I say I am disgusted, I mean it. The accused gunman, Craig … Yusor, 21, liked going to the beach. 73 NC counties and 1 VA county are under alert, including Wake, Cumberland, Durham, Johnston, and Orange counties. All rights reserved. Please remember them — Deah, Yusor and Razan — they are my children and they are gone." Although he didn't specify who recorded the incident, he noted that he looked at "reports on the contents of the victims' cell phones" but never mentions anything about Hicks' phone or anything provided by a third-party witness.The video doesn't support Hicks' claim that any of the victims used obscenities against him, Sommers said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Yusor and Razan Abu-Salha were like many young sisters. Grid View List View. Hicks then entered their condo and shot both women at close range.Family members of the victims broke down after the video was shown in court on Wednesday.HEARTBREAKING: Family members react to the video of Deah Barakat being shot after being confronted by Craig Hicks. "If you’re going to be disrespectful towards me, I am going to be disrespectful of you," Hicks told Barakat in the video.As Barakat began telling Hicks that he was allowed to park in other spaces, Hicks pulled out his gun and shot him eight times. Oct 27, 2015 The three victims were having dinner together when Hicks knocked on their door on Feb. 10, 2015.“You’ve got three cars in the lot and I don’t have a parking spot,” Hicks told Barakat in the video, the New York Times None of the three victims had their cars parked in Hicks' spot at the time and only two of their cars were present in the lot.The video showed Barakat speaking politely with Hicks, contradicting Hicks' allegations to investigators that Barakat had insulted him and had come at him with a knife. "After their deaths, Abu-Salha said social media was filled with hate. 42 closings/delays reported. Video. "Defense attorneys objected to Sommers' conclusions being introduced at Hicks' sentencing, noting that Hicks has already agreed to a plea and the maximum sentence – Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry "We lost the battle – we lost Deah, Yusor and Razan – but ultimately we won the war," Barakat's brother, Farris Barakat, said Monday. Jan 26, 2016. “I feel sorry for the family members, but at the same time I really don’t want to deal with them, and that would be empathy. The man shot to death Deah, 23, Yusor, 21, and Yusor’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19. "Similarly, Hicks' efforts to explain wounds on his hand as possibly the result of a physical altercation initiated by Barakat are not supported in any way by the cell phone video of the shootings. Her sister, Razan, was studying architecture and environmental design at North Carolina State University and had recently made the dean's list in her first semester.Yusor Abu-Salha and Deah Barakat (left) and Razan Abu-Salha.The case sparked global outrage and calls to charge Hicks with hate crimes. After their deaths, Abu-Salha said social media was filled with hate. Razan and Yusor were heard screaming in the video. He and Yusor had married less than two months before their deaths and were "lovebirds," their relatives Yusor had graduated from North Carolina State University in 2014 and was about to begin dental studies at UNC. "I like to think I’ve got empathy, but I look at the way I act with stuff and really wonder if I do,” he said in an interview, the New York Times reported. [The video] left no room for doubt as to what their character was."Dr. "[W]hile it is impossible to offer definitive conclusions regarding whether and the degree to which Craig Hicks was influenced by intergroup bias," he concluded, "various details included in the case materials are consistent with the conclusion that there is a reasonable likelihood that Razan Mohammad Abu-Salah, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salah and Deah Shaddy Barakat were not simply random victims of the violent outburst of a neighbor frustrated over parking, but rather that their ethnic and religious backgrounds played a role in how Hicks perceived them, interacted with them and ultimately shot and killed them. San Francisco, California Recorded. Razan, 19, liked recording five-second videos of her and friends and posting them on the Internet. The North Carolina man who fatally shot three Muslim American students in their Chapel Hill home in 2015 pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday.Craig Stephen Hicks pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder for killing 23-year-old Deah Barakat; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her 19-year-old sister Razan Abu-Salha.Hicks, 50, accepted three consecutive life sentences without parole as part of his plea deal, two months after the district attorney dropped plans to seek the death penalty in an effort to speed up the proceedings.At the time of the shootings, Barakat was a second-year dental student at the University of North Carolina (UNC). "It is about cold-hearted madness and murder,” District Attorney Satana Deberry told the court on Wednesday, according to the A cellphone video recorded by Barakat that showed the moments leading up to his death was played in court for the first time on Wednesday. Last updated on June 13, 2019, at 10:36 a.m. Location. However, the victims' families believe Hicks targeted them because they were Muslim. ET Original Air Date. Craig Hicks was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of Deah Barakat; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha; and her 19-year-old sister Razan Abu-Salha.