UNC Charlotte Day of Remembrance Today Marks 3 Years Since Deadly Campus Shooting
Happening today, the UNC Charlotte community will come together to mark 3 years since a deadly shooting on campus.
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Happening today, the UNC Charlotte community will come together to mark 3 years since a deadly shooting on campus.
People gathered both virtually and in person for the day of remembrance. Wreaths were laid, a memorial plaque was dedicated, and the two young men who were killed that day, Reed Parlier and Riley Howell, were remembered.
Friday marks two years since the UNC Charlotte campus tragedy that claimed the lives of two students.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg detectives have charged a second suspect in connection to a deadly shooting that happened near the UNC Charlotte campus in early November.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has received the external review it commissioned of the April 30, 2019, shootings that took the lives of Reed Parlier and Riley Howell and injured four other students in the Kennedy Building.
UNC Charlotte holds a virtual remembrance on the one year anniversary of the campus shooting.
There will be a virtual remembrance event because of the pandemic. WCCB Charlotte's Alexandra Elich spoke exclusively to one of the shooting survivors.
Thursday marks one year since the campus tragedy at UNC Charlotte. A remembrance event will now be virtual, featuring music and guest speakers. The program will pay tribute to Riley Howell and Reed Parlier, who died in the shooting on April 30, 2019.
The anniversary of the shooting deaths of two North Carolina university students will be observed with an online service because of the coronavirus mandate to stay at home.
A statement from Chancellor Philip Dubois outlines that classroom 236 in the Kennedy building, as well as an adjoining room, will no longer be used for classes. There will also be a permanent memorial.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced “United: A Remembrance Concert” that will take place on April 30 to mark the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting on campus and pay tribute to the lives forever changed by the events of that day.
The 2019 Nish Jamgotch Jr. Humanitarian Award was recently awarded posthumously to Riley Howell and Reed Parlier, two promising UNC Charlotte students who died when a gunman opened fire in a classroom on April 30, 2019.
In the wake of the shooting at UNC Charlotte last April a committee was formed that has proposed a $1 million memorial to honor the victims.
A North Carolina college student hailed by police as a hero for preventing more injuries and deaths after a gunman opened fire in a classroom has now been immortalized as a Jedi by the production company for the Star Wars franchise.
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