#BREAKING: Suspect In #ChapelHill Shootings Had 12 Firearms, Cache Of Ammo In Home

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DURHAM, North Carolina — A dozen firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were seized from the home of a Chapel Hill man charged in the Tuesday shooting deaths of three students, according to a search warrant.

When more details of the warrant become available, we will update this story.

EARLIER: Police arrested and charged Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, with three counts of first degree murder on Tuesday for the shooting deaths of three Muslim students.

Authorities have not yet given a motive for the killings of given any further details about Hicks, who is being held at the Durham County Jail.

Little is known about Hicks but he is a self-professed athirst according to his Facebook page.

He is expected to make his first court appearance on Wednesday morning and investigators are looking to see if it was indeed a hate crime.

The victims – a man, his wife and her sister – were found after police responded to a report of gunshots at around 5:15pm on Tuesday.

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The three, who were identified as Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Barakat and Mohammad were married, and Abu-Salha was Mohammad’s sister, according to the University of North Carolina (UNC).

Barakat was a second-year dental student there, and Yusor was scheduled to begin dental studies in the fall. Abu-Salha was a student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, according to UNC.

The neighborhood where they were found consists mostly of rental apartments and condominiums.

“It’s a very quiet community,” resident Bethany Boring told WRAL-TV. “It’s a lot of graduate and professional students. You know, professional families.”

UNC said its chancellor would issue a message to campus later Wednesday but gave no other details.

A Facebook community – Our Three Winners – has been set up for posts about the three students.

“Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha have returned to their Lord,” the site’s creators state. “They have set an example in life and in death.”

The site features a photo of the three smiling at what appears to be graduation ceremony.

Barakat’s brother Farris mourned the deaths, writing “it doesn’t make sense” on his own Facebook page.

“Please pray for them, their friends, and the family. I haven’t even begun to fully comprehend what has happened. But I know for sure those three together have done so much we are all proud of,” Farris Barakat wrote.

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