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    Court Focuses on Motive as Shooter Pleads Guilty to Killing Muslim Students

    The Chapel Hill shooter pleads guilty as prosecutors stress motive.
    by Joseph Neff Jun 13, 2019 3 minutes

    DURHAM, N.C. — Murders prompted by broad hatred of non-white people are indeed hate crimes, even if current law doesn’t label them that way.

    That was the message prosecutors sent Wednesday as Craig Hicks pleaded guilty to shooting three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2015. He received three consecutive life sentences.

    The shootings were the crimes “of a white man whom society taught that his views were the

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