A graduate student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was booked Tuesday on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a faculty member.
Tailei Qi, an applied physical sciences major, was arrested Monday afternoon about an hour and a half after the shooting at UNC. He was being held by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Hillsborough.
The victim, described as a university faculty member, was not publicly identified pending notification of family. No other injuries were reported.