A stunned academic community mourned Zijie Yan Tuesday, describing the UNC physics professor slain on UNC-Chapel Hill campus as an enthusiastic scientist and outgoing friend. Yan was identified as the ...

UNC professor Zijie Yan was fatally shot Aug. 28, 2023, in Chapel Hill, NC,, prompting an hourslong lockdown and questions about campus security. Yan’s graduate student has been charged with his ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Authorities charged a University of North Carolina graduate student Tuesday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his faculty advisor, in an attack that caused a campus ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Police charged a University of North Carolina graduate student Tuesday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a faculty member that caused a campus lockdown amid a ...

The graduate student accused of fatally shooting a UNC professor on campus Monday will be held in jail without bail, a judge ruled Tuesday, and the district attorney will not seek the death penalty.