Campus Safety News

On the morning of March 5, the University’s campuswide alert system, developed last year in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, was used for the first time to notify people on campus that a young woman had been found shot to death at about 5… read more

A few months ago, Mohammed Taheri-Azar issued a venom-filled tirade in an Orange County courtroom, shouting obscenities and calling his court-appointed lawyer a moron. Now, the man accused of striking nine people on the UNC campus with an SUV… read more

While UNC’s housing department has been working on acquiring emergency response technology that could be used to broadcast messages to students campuswide in the event of an emergency, the tragedy at Virginia Tech has vaulted the concept to the… read more

An alumnus who drove through the heart of Carolina’s campus with a rented SUV in March, hitting nine people, is likely to plead not guilty, his court-appointed defender said after a Sept. 19 hearing. Since his first appearance in Orange County… read more

A campus contract worker died at midday on Aug. 9 while working in Kenan Stadium, according to UNC police. Leland S. Williams, 31, of Burlington and his co-workers of Kemco of Burlington Inc. were replacing light fixtures and bulbs on banks of… read more

With his ankles in shackles, Mohammed Taheri-Azar ’05 shuffled from a squad car into a back door of the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough on Wednesday. In those few seconds, two television reporters asked the questions of the day:… read more

The 2005 UNC graduate accused of driving a Jeep SUV through an area near the Pit just before noon on March 3, striking nine people, has sent a letter to The News & Observer of Raleigh saying that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in… read more

A UNC student died and another was in critical condition after the two fell out of a third-floor window in Stacy Residence Hall early Friday morning, Feb. 24, 2006. Sophomore Keith Shawn Smith, 20, a Greensboro native and resident adviser on the… read more

Tens of thousands of pedestrians walk along Chapel Hill roads each day, most without thinking twice about their safety. Between 1997 and 2005, only six pedestrians died in Chapel Hill. But in a four-day stretch, Jan 23-26, two pedestrians and a… read more

UNC police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at the James T. Hedrick Building on Friday Center Drive about three miles from the main campus. read more