University of North Carolina students, faculty members and family hold a candlelight vigil on Aug. 30, 2023, in Chapel Hill in honor of professor Zijie Yan, who was fatally shot on campus.That’s what it was like for students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after associate professor Zijie Yan was fatally shot in a science building on the campus.Police said they arrested graduate student Tailei Qi, 34, of Chapel Hill without force less than two hours after the shooting.
An idea came late Monday night to Emmy Martin, the newspaper’s editor in chief, while she was in bed looking through the text messages and social media posts that she and other students had received during the lockdown.. “Everyone was getting these texts, and we were all kind of not having the same experience, but having an experience we all shared together. That’s when I kind of knew that that is our front page.” And so it became.
“ARE YOU SAFE? WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU ALONE? GUYS I’M SO F---ING SCARED. HEY- COME ON SWEETHEART- I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ANY GUNSHOTS? PLEASE STAY SAFE. BARRICADE THE DOOR OR IF YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN AND GET TO A PLACE THAT CAN LOCK DO SO. MY TEACHER IS ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING AND I’M LOWKEY FREAKING OUT. I WISH THESE NEVER HAPPENED. STAY CALM AND SAFE-WE LOVE YOU. IAM SO SORRY THIS IS HAPPENING. I LOVE YOU. WHAT THE F--- IS HAPPENING? MULTIPLE VOICES AND LOUD BANGING.