Students Spotted Jumping Out Windows During Campus Shooting

Videos on X, show terrified University of North Carolina students jumping out of windows after an armed gunman killed a faculty member.

The videos show two young men gathering belongings and jumping out a window to run for safety.

The suspect in the shooting has been identified as Tailei Qi.

Qi was arrested a mile away from where there shooting occurred and was apprehended without incident.

According to police Qi was a graduate student who was studying at UNC’s Department of Applied Physical Sciences.

Please watch this video of STUDENTS HAVING TO JUMP OUT OF WINDOWS at UNC Chapel Hill for safety & ask yourself if this should be normal. This is why we are outraged, pissed off, & ready to vote out anyone who doesn’t take action. This is sickening. pic.twitter.com/d5NXdKhxOw

— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) August 28, 2023

Per the Daily Mail:

Terrified North Carolina University students had to jump out of a first-story window to escape a gunman, as a Wuhan-educated physics graduate is arrested for shooting dead a member of staff.

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One person has died during the incident at UNC, according to WRAL, and a ‘person of interest’ has been arrested.

Video taken at the scene shows students jumping from windows at the university as the shooting unfolded.

Two young men pass their belongings out of a window before jumping from a ledge to the ground.

Pictures of the suspect Tailei Qi, who police say was involved in the shooting, show him handcuffed around a mile away from the campus after an active shooter alert was issued.

Qi can be seen in an image provided to WRAL sitting on the ground and looking down with his hands behind his back, wearing a dark shirt and glasses.

Footage shows the suspected assailant being put into the back of a police car by officers after being apprehended.

https://twitter.com/UNCPolice/status/1696229932446462105

Here’s what NBC news reported:

A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill faculty member was killed Monday in a shooting that prompted a campuswide lockdown while officials searched for an “armed and dangerous person,” university officials said.

A suspect was captured about an hour and a half after the shooting at Caudill Laboratories, and an all-clear was issued for the campus about two hours after that.

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No other injuries were reported, school officials said at a briefing Monday afternoon.

“I am devastated and saddened by today’s shooting in one of our campus buildings, a place where we conduct our important work of teaching, mentoring and research every day,” UNC Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said in a letter to the university community. “This shooting damages the trust and safety that we so often take for granted on our campus. We will work to rebuild that trust and safety.”

#BREAKING: Some of the students being hiding from an active armed and dangerous shooter inside the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill #UNC are now being rescued by police.

Tailei Qi, a Wuhan-educated physics PhD student is the prime suspect.#Universityofnorthcarolina pic.twitter.com/WDaO1Di62T

— EvoCentral (@evocentralnews) August 28, 2023