A 911 recording indicates police in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, quickly received the name and description of the accused shooter just after a professor was fatally shot this week.
Tailei Qi, the graduate student suspected in the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member, center, makes his first appearance at the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Qi has been charged by the UNC Police Department with first-degree murder and possession of a weapon on educational property, both felony charges.
Police said they arrested Tailei Qi, 34, of Chapel Hill, without force off campus less than two hours after the shooting.with first-degree murder and a weapons count and jailed without bond. Yan was Qi's faculty adviser and Qi worked with Yan's research group. UNC Police Chief Brian James said earlier this week that a 911 caller reported gunfire around 1 p.m. Monday at Caudill Labs, which was Yan's primary work location. Qi was not at the building when officers arrived soon after, James said.
The caller then described what the suspect was wearing and said “I saw him leaving the building” in the direction of another laboratory facility next door.Police later released a photo of what they called a “person of interest."
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