The former UNC Charlotte student who attacked a classroom on the school’s campus earlier this year, killing two people and wounding four others, pleaded guilty to murder in Mecklenburg Superior Court yesterday. The Charlotte Observer reports that as part of a plea agreement Trystan Andrew Terrell received two consecutive life sentences for killing Reed Parlier and Riley Howell; he also was sentenced on other charges not detailed in the report. Keep reading for more on this story and other news. UNCC. New information about the UNCC shooting was provided at the plea hearing. A prosecutor said that on the day of the shooting, Terrell, a former student of UNCC at the time, took the light rail to campus and walked around for several hours. He eventually entered an anthropology class about 10 minutes after it had started and fired 17 shots from a 9mm pistol. Terrell had practiced with the pistol at a gun range and a prosecutor said that he fired indiscriminately in the classroom, apparently shooting at the table closest to the door he entered. A law enforcement officer responding to the scene found Terrell, Howell, and Parlier on the floor of the classroom, with Terrell saying that he was the perpetrator and explaining that he had been tackled. Sheriff Indicted. National and local news outlets alike are reporting that Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins was indicted this week on two counts of obstruction of justice connected to an incident in 2014 where Wilkins allegedly advised someone to kill [...]
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