Craig Stephen Hicks Pleaded Guilty To Death Three Muslim Students AS

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Craig Stephen Hicks (50), a man from North Carolina has pleaded guilty to the murder of three Muslim students in 2015.

Hicks submitted the defense of three first-rate charges in the courtroom of Durham that was filled with dozens of families and friends of the victims on Wednesday (12/6), thus Al Jazeera reported.

More than four years ago he shot his neighbors, Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha until he died in their apartment.

"I want to confess guilty from day one," Hicks told the High Court Judge Orlando Hudson.

The developments occurred two months after the district lawyer had cancelled a plan to prosecute the death sentence in hopes of resolving a case that he thought was too long to be short.

Police said, Hicks claimed the confrontation came from competition for parking in the condominium complex where they all lived.

The families of the victims say, they believe Hicks acted with anti-Muslim hatred.

The father of one of the victims, psychiatrist Mohammad Abu-Salha, testified in front of a congressional trial of racial crimes in April, Hicks had expressed hate commentary about his daughters wearing the hijab.

Police said that in February 2015, Hicks entered a condominium in Chapel Hill owned by Barakat and fatal shot three victims.

At the time of the incident, Dean Barakat (23) was a second-year student at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) After graduating from NC State.

Yusor Abu-Salha, a 21-year-old wife of Barakat, was also a graduate of NC State and was admitted to the UNC School of Dentistry.

Razan Abu-Salha, a 19-year-old Yusor sister, excelled as an undergraduate architecture student at NC State.

All three victims are active in charitable institutions.