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Students Hold Vigil for UNC Charlotte Shooting Victims
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14:36Now PlayingStudents are descending on the basketball arena at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte to attend a vigil for the victims of a fatal shooting in a campus classroom.
The vigil was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, a reading day before final exams were scheduled to start on the campus north of downtown Charlotte. Instead of preparing for finals, students will pay respects to the two people killed when a gunman opened fire Tuesday, killing two and wounding four.
Many students wore green T-shirts with various logos representing the school and its sports nickname, the 49ers.
The father of shooting victim Riley Howell's longtime girlfriend says the young man was always ready to help others.
Kevin Westmoreland says his daughter, Lauren, and Howell dated for nearly six years and stayed together even as they went to separate colleges.
He said Howell was athletic and compassionate — and would have been a good firefighter or paramedic.
Howell was one of two students killed Tuesday by a gunman at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. The 21-year-old junior was from the Asheville area.
Police credit Howell with saving lives by tackling the shooter in the attack that also wounded four students.
The grandfather of the suspect in a fatal shooting on a North Carolina college campus says his grandson is under observation in police custody.
Paul Rold said Wednesday that 22-year-old Trystan Andrew Terrell has not been allowed to speak to his father or a lawyer. Rold says Terrell's father "hasn't a clue about what happened."
Terrell is jailed on multiple charges including murder in the Tuesday attack on a University of North Carolina-Charlotte classroom that left two students dead and four others wounded.
Rold, of Arlington, Texas, says Terrell is on the autism spectrum but "clever as can be" and showed no interest in guns.
Authorities say the gunman who killed two students in a North Carolina college classroom didn't appear to target any particular person but did deliberately pick the building where it happened.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said he promised the father of one of the victims that his detectives will do everything they can to try to figure out why the shooter opened fire Tuesday in a classroom at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Former student 22-year-old Trystan Andrew Terrell has been charged in the attack that killed two students and wounded four others.
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