Posted on 03/03/2006 1:44:30 PM PST by aynrandfreak
A University graduate careened a rented silver Jeep Grand Cherokee through the Pit about noon Friday, striking nine pedestrians and sending six to UNC Hospitals.
Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 23, who graduated in 2005, is in custody at the Department of Public Safety after turning himself in after the incident. He was born May 5, 1983, according to University registrar records. He was a psychology and philosophy major. He was published in The Charlotte Observer for dean's list honors in spring 2005. He is still listed as a senior in the print directory.
At about 2 p.m., a bomb threat was called into the University Commons apartment buiding D, at 303 Smith Level Road in Carrboro, where Taheriazar is believed to live. State Bureau of Investigations officials entered the building at 3:03 p.m. The Federal Bureau of Investigations now has arrived.
Capt. Joel Booker, of the Carrboro Police Department, said police are not sure how the threat is related to the campus incident. All buildings have been cleared. Booker says there is reason to believe that there is a public threat at the building.
"To my knowledge, the only person involved is being dealt with on (campus police's) end," he said. "This person obviously has roommates, but there's no reason to believe they were involved."
Commons apartments typically house four people.
Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said a Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar has a prior arrest. He was arrested June 16, 2003, on one count of resisting arrest and reckless driving.
Six victims were transported to UNC Hospitals, including a 20-year-old woman suffering from a head injury and a 42-year-old man suffering from road rash. Five of the victims were students.
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I'm sure he was screaming "Peace! Peace!" as he rampaged.
It was a shooting, not a stabbing.
What's this, a stellar job of fact-finding by the student press?
Search is your friend. Thread with 91 posts is here. A search for "Pit" would have found it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589487/posts
Yikes!!
I wonder why they consider the complex still a threat and warned people not to return?
I wonder what's on his laptop they got off the front seat?
What makes these people think terror is going to achieve something?
Terror Bombing in WWII had the effect of stiffening people's will to resist - it achieved exactly the opposite aim of what was intended.
Perhaps it is the Hitlerian bent in these people driving them to repeat Hitler's mistake?
Thanks for posting.
The whack-jobs at UNC were among the first to start sucking up to Islam following the 9-11 attacks.
I searched "Jeep" and saw nothing posted.
I wonder if he went to Jeep Driver training school in Florida.
Where?
Why am I not surprised. What I am surprised about is that the FBI hasn't designated the bomb threat as a "hate crime".
What?
"A University graduate careened a rented silver Jeep Grand Cherokee through the Pit about noon Friday, striking nine pedestrians and sending six to UNC Hospitals."
Mohammed Reza must be agonozing over the fact fact he didn't kill any infidels. No heaven (or 72 virgins either) for Reza; the Koran demands the killing of minfidels.
Serious injuries won't even get him 36 virgins..../sarc
Sure. But, that's a different article.
And besides, if not for this one, we wouldn't know he was born May 5, 1983! ;)
That is because they named it a dreaded SUV.
Send him to prison.
He's gonna be somebody's virgin.
Some interesting quotes from the article:
"Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, 23, who graduated in 2005," [...]"He said the suspect was dressed in a suit with white socks and wore round glasses. He was of indeterminate race."
Indeterminate race? Why doesn't the newspaper tell us which country he came from and we'll tell the idiot reporter what race he belongs to.
"He slowly came in, and I thought he was going to stop or something," said sophomore Scott Wilson, who was campaigning for BSM vice president. "But then he sped right through."
Certainly not an accident; the accounts indicate that the wannabe jihadi identified his target, drove slowly toward it to avoid suspicion, and then drove through his victims.
"Among other Pit occupants, Black Student Movement elections candidates were in the popular campus gathering spot at noon."
Were the majority of the victims black? If so, this incident sounds like the classical liberal definition of a "hate crime" to me; it will be fascinating to see how the PC liberals in the university spin this one....after all, it involves a jihadi killing blacks.
Please post more news on this story if you find it. Thanks.
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