Graduate Student Charged With Murder in Killing of University of North Carolina Faculty Member

Tailei Qi (C), the graduate student suspected in the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member, makes his first appearance at the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C., on Aug. 29, 2023. Hannah Schoenbaum/AP Photo

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—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 search for the gunman.

Tailei Qi, 34, was charged with first-degree murder and having a gun on educational property in Monday’s killing of Zijie Yan inside a science building at the state’s flagship public university.