New video shows the desperation at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as students climbed out of windows following the alert about an active shooter. NBC News’ Julia Ainsley has more details on the suspect who is in custody and the associate professor that was killed.
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A great relief to the welfare program
God bless you young man
Can’t blame the black people, they went to hbcu 😂😂😂😂😂
He is a foreigner student. How did he get the weapon? I guess only citizens or permanent residents are qualified to own a weapon?
Lol, this is america. You can get a gun I any town with no paperwork
Bro there’s illegal guns on the street obviously, most shootings are used with illegal guns not legal ones, so it’s kind of impossible trying to stop illegal guns from being sold, there’s no way of tracking them
Why should only citizens have all the fun.?
So only the bLK people can shoot everyone and also the white peoples? Let the Asians finally get some revenge!!! Lol 😂😂😂😂
Corruption of rules! It is a systemic corruption made by the government! The Chinese government makes rules to prevent the real estate industry from reducing prices! It is corruption of rules! xi jin ping is very bad! Don’t let people buy cheap houses! ! He forced 1.4 billion people in China to buy super expensive houses!
what’s this? 2nd day of school?
2nd week
Our nation must address gun control!!!!
Chinese people just keep ruining things for other Asian Americans just trying to make it out here without discrimination. Smh
Why is the D.A. not seeking the death penalty?
Because death penalty cases are more expensive, doesn’t deter crime, and a non-zero number of criminals (9-20%) on death row are actually wrongfully accused. That means that the state is commiting murder of innocent people, the very crime they want to prevent.
Life in prison is a far worse punishment and it costs the tax payer far less, by several million dollars per case.
@CBP&J Some of what you say is unfortunately true, which is an indictment of HOW justice is carried out (or rather, FAILED to be carried out) in our system rather than of the death penalty itself.
To say the death penalty doesn’t deter crime is ridiculous. How many murderers murder again once they’ve been put to death?
@CBP&J Your data is way off, I can agree it would be cheaper if law abiding citizens took out the thugs during the crime. Arm more law abiding citizens.
@jlmoses16 deterrence refers to getting other people to stop doing crimes. Stopping a criminal from doing a crime is easy once he’s in prison. Putting him to death serves no purpose outside of more punishment.
@Nuclear Waste If the death penalty were carried out quickly instead of being drawn out over years of appeals, and if we’d bring back public hangings instead of rocking them softly to sleep, I can guarantee you’d see these kinds of crime go down.
Let me guess, since he is Asian, this has nothing to do with race lol🤣
Why should only Americans have all the fun?
If it’s a black killing an Asian or a white it’s not racist! It’s only racism when someone kills a black. Because they are seen as low class
Asian hate? Fool
Actually, after whites Asians are the most likely to do these types of shootings.
The VA Tech shooter, for example, was Asian
You know the rules, we are only allowed to be racist towards black people on youtube. 😂
Did she say they won’t be seeking the death penalty??? And we wonder why this keeps happening. Examples should be made of all these terrorists. I am tired of being afraid to go to class!!!
i feel like having them serve life is worse than death
@Zero 0 nah, thats to easy . People are just going to do more gruesome and weird stuff . To live life time in jail . Death penalty will deterred many people
Y’all could, I don’t know, look at the research that would tell you that the death penalty isn’t a deterrent for crime.
Or you could just stay ignorant to reality if that’s just more convenient for you.
@Chris Chen what
Chinese person again. What a menace to society!
are you black?
the Chinese are very smart people, they dominate the science scenes now. Both scientists in the US are Chinese.
Guns are so easy to get even a non citizen can get guns. How do we solve it? We need more guns!
Exactly what I was thinking, law abiding citizens have to outgun the thugs 😂
@Anti-bulling JamesYou gonna restrict knives, automobiles, golf clubs, bats, razor blades, rope? Should I continue?
@proudredneck we already have restrictions on cars and guess what? It massively decreases vehicle related deaths. There are tons of laws about where you can drive, you have to pass a test and get a license, you have to have liability insurance, you can get your license taken away if you’ve proven yourself a danger on the roads, and every car has a title or ownership attached to it. And yet I don’t hear anyone complaining that it’s too hard to get a car and only criminals can get cars nowadays. So yes! Let’s please treat guns with the same level of seriousness as we treat cars! That would be fantastic.
@CBP&J Guns are not the problem though, what you idiots don’t get is that gun laws only affect law abiding gun owners. I will never support any restrictions on gun ownership. You need to put the focus on the real problems, mental health, and thug control.
@Anti-bulling James You’re right. I am selfish……
Thoughts and prayers. <-- that fixes everything, right?
To pray is to talk to the air.
What else are they supposed to do?
@Jesse Pass laws to make things more safe I would think would be helpful. How many lockdowns do you see in other first world countries?
@Vic B Laws don’t mean squat when people don’t follow them
@Vic Bhow many random youtubers work in congress or the legislation branch? And everything the shooter did was already illegal.
And in many places the Republicans are pushing back on more gun restrictions and are going in the opposite direction with less gun restrictions in response to the outcry. Literally making those who push for gun reform ironically making the situation far worse.
So if you aren’t going to try and navigate the political hellscape that is the usa, where the Republicans and NRA are actively fighting against gun reform, what else can you do?
People just say thoughts and prayers to share their condolences. They aren’t actually praying or even thinking about the incidences. And you can claim thats useless, but its no more realistic than trying to change laws when you don’t have the power to do so and the problem is far more complex than passing some laws are going to fix. Especially when several organizations prefer the status quo and have billions of $ invested to keep it that way.
Which is more realistic? Thoughts and prayers or fighting in that hellscape? People have tried both. Not only was there no solution, but it has actually gotten worse.
So let people have their thoughts and prayers. Cause at the very least its not making the problem actively worse, like pushing for more laws.
Themwhite boys were like,,,, we ain’t waiting for the police lol😂
Fake..theatrics..black and white clothes…BS
@HooKnose juiceYou think it was a hit? A lot of if not most college professors are connected to intelligence.
@E D 100% fake…I can read saTan like a book..he fools most… but NOT me.
@HooKnose juice True.
Yeah why would this needed to be done on campus and televised…?
Psyops
@E D Good to be awake to the Deception..it’s EVERYWHERE!
He deserves the death penalty why let him live his life when took someone else’s life? R.I.P Zijie Yan
Perhaps because he is a Chinese national. Death penalty for a foreign citizen could set off international tensions at best, and cause an explosive international incident between the U.S.A. and China at worst. China tends to be vindictive when countries do something with their citizens.
Do that to all the bLK men that at this moment just shot and killed somebody!
Asian on asian crime
You know times are bad when Asians are killing eachother
I love my Asians!
@Spirit Animalevery race has been doing it for ages
@Chris Chen I don’t hate anyone bro. Stop black hate.
1:15 straight up dump truck
Bbw… nice.
GYATT
@_Coda _ what does that mean
@DJcyberslash look it up man, it’s what we’re saying now
@_Coda _ lol so I just looked it up. Lol I’ve seen that word like 10 times today. Gyatt! 😎
SEE THIS IS MORE PROOF WE NEED TO TAKE GUNS AWAY FROM REPUBLICANS!!!
THIS IS THEIR FAULT!!
TAKE THEIR GUNS NOW!!!
Maybe you should try educating yourself rather than just repeating nonsense. People that vote like you are literally responsible for 90% of the shootings…
Sum Ting Wong?
Excellent example of bullying the shooter mentioned… 😑😑😑
Wt trash ngr?
@So Nilol nice racism buddy, the victim actually was the one who posted about bullying, what’s wrong, Asians all look alike to you?
Was this possibly a hit from China?
So sad.
Post-undergraduate students from China have high chance of hating their academic advisor. The student-teacher relationship in China was a bit chaos. Student is like a cheap labor for the professor. SOME teachers holds their graduation for very long on purpose to keep the workforce. This is more common than you think in China (not every professor, but still high). I doubt they brought the same culture to the US.
Stop Asian hate racist
He could be a spy for all you know, sent by ? Pretending to be a student?
You watch too many movies.
From China With Love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
These types of murders should never happen. You are with people that you think are like you and have your same ethics and are safe.
there is a philosophy on crime and terrorism it won’t ever end long as communism capitalism exists.
Saying they should never happen is a useless sentiment. A understandable wish to run from reality. This is the world we live in now. We made this a reality by deliberate actions and inaction.
Bleeding hearts have NOTHING to say. (I)
Was this a hu white supremacy action?
The shooter is a chinese national from wuhan.
These guys were escaping lock down, not the shooter.
This is great America. They have super hero but all are on vacation now.
Free the Asian he has suffered enough! Leave him alone
How did he get the gun?
It’s very easy to buy a gun on the street for cash.
If this student had obtained permanent residency in the U. S. (lifelong legal status and the ability to apply for citizenship after 5 years), he could legally buy a gun.
2 races commit 99% of shootings in America 😮😮😮
Ah, the new men…
Chinese students always go for a Chinese supervisors and those ones don’t make their lives easy.
The most diffucult people to work with are your own kind.
Stop Asian hate
Media is frantically trying to figure out how to spin this for the next election.
I’m sure when they saw the guy was Chinese and not white they were devastated lol
Welcome to land of freedom.🎉🎉
Wow! A college student at 34 years old? Seems kinda late. 🤔🤔🤔
graduate student. not late the guy was doing a masters degree
Anyone can still go to college at any age as an adult.
How Pathetic. Pure Media Scum.
I would do the same im not staying in a building with a man with a GUN.
That’s so funny! And yall were worried about black people on campus👀🤣🤣
I thought Asians don’t commit crimes.
Crszy I just seen a video of a PhD student that was injecting chemicals into his neighbors house due to not liking them
This will continue until we have laws like China
As a indian i’m concerned about the human rights in USA
???
Chinese trolls
The motive?
Perhaps crazy?
Again…..? When will this stoo?
It will never “stoo”
This has become all too normal here in the United States, so many people just carrying guns. Schools getting shot up every couple of days now.
Dang Media bummed about his race.
Although this wasn’t technically a mass shooting, Asians perform a disproportionate number of these shootings
I think a lot of the panic that spread like lightning around the campus and city was spurred by the Jacksonville dollar general shootings 48 hours before. That panic has already sunk deep into our psyches by continuous none stop shootings everywhere. Shootings not out of regular criminal activities like robberies, holdups, car jackings etc but shootings that come out of just plain raging anger. They don’t want your purse, wallet, possessions etc they want your life. Many don’t even have criminal backgrounds. Just plain evil with guns readily available (open carry permission) to relieve whatever grudge gnaws at them at any particular moment.
Liberals running from the shooter, the weak will always be weak. One nut with a gun, can make all these people run. 😂
We dun need gun control deeeerp
Could be a lack of emotional intelligence
Good thing this guy committed murder and mayhem in Chapel Hill/Orange County. Despite the weapon being missing, with no motive determined, the DA/government in that county already decided “no death penalty.” No leverage in locating a firearm, not knowing anything about the background of the killer – par for the course in the same town who defunded, degraded, and demoralized its own law enforcement officers not long ago. 👌🏼 Playing politics is their lifeblood ✅✅
I was on campus in Phillips Hall when it all happened, and it was a truly terrifying experience because we had no idea what was going on. We were told to shelter in place until we had the all clear. There was no reason for those students to be climbing out of the window like that because they were only putting themselves at risk. If I were to guess, I’d say that they were only trying to get out of staying in the classroom for 3 hours and sheltering in place. This is yet another example of how media can be misinterpreted.
Horrible. Grad students are often subjected to unbearable stress. But seeking the death penalty can never be an appropriate response.
At least there more diverse sispects
I would have been just like those kids jumping out at that window
It is hard to imagine how a country without a gun control act can confirm the right of its people to live freely. It is ridiculous for America to accuse other countries of the world of human rights without guaranteeing the basic human rights of its own citizens.
Shame to see this. Never such incident happened in India.
he did it for china prolly
people need to be more prudential. some of these loquacious mediocrities have incalculable vices
There’s nothing of ‘Why the DA’s not seeking the death penalty’ ?
Because they’re going to contact China so they can hand him back to the Chinese?
China has many mentally ill people