The police have a suspect in custody in the attack, which left two people dead and four injured. All the victims were students.<\/b>
\nTwo people were killed and four others injured on Tuesday when a man opened fire with a handgun at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the authorities said. Here is what we know so far.
The chancellor of the university, Philip Dubois, identified the six victims in an interview on WBT radio on Wednesday. He said they were all students at the university.
He named the two who were killed as Ellis Parlier, 19, of Midland, N. C., and Riley Howell, 21, of Waynesville, N. C.
The injured, he said, were Sean Dehart, 20, and Drew Pescaro, 19, both of Apex, N. C.; Emily Haupt, 23, of Charlotte; and Rami Alramatin, 20, of Saudi Arabia.
The spellings of the students\u2019 names are according to WBT; the university has not yet confirmed them.
Mr. Dubois said in the interview that three of the injured had surgery and were expected to recover fully, and the fourth, who was less seriously injured, had been treated and released. He did not say which was which.
Alpha Tau Omega, a leadership fraternity, released a statement identifying Mr. Pescaro as a member of its Lambda Delta chapter. The student newspaper, The Niner Times, said he was a sportswriter for the paper and reported that he was in stable condition after surgery.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police identified the suspect in the shooting as Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22. He was disarmed and taken into custody at the scene late Tuesday.
Mr. Terrell spent most of his youth in Texas, and moved to North Carolina with his father after his mother died in 2011, his grandfather, Paul Rold, told The Associated Press.
Mr. Rold told the news agency that Mr. Terrell had enrolled in the university at some point and had shown an interest in foreign languages. But it was not immediately clear whether he was still enrolled at the time of the shooting.
The news agency quoted Mr. Rold saying that he did know his grandson to be a weapons enthusiast. Reached on Wednesday morning, Mr. Rold declined to comment further, saying, \u201cYou have to understand what my family is going through.\u201d
Public records show that Mr. Terrell registered to vote in North Carolina in December 2014 and cast his ballot early in the 2016 election. The Mecklenburg County Sheriff\u2019s Office, whose immediately available records go back three years, indicate that he had not been arrested in the county before Tuesday.
Mr. Terrell was booked into a local jail early on Wednesday, charged with two counts of murder, four counts of attempted first degree murder, four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm on an educational property and discharging a firearm on an educational property.
The authorities have declined to speculate on the motive for the shooting, which took place on the final day of classes for the university\u2019s spring term. The police said Mr. Terrell did not say anything at the scene when he was taken into custody.
As Mr. Terrell, manacled and surrounded by police officers, strode past television cameras and into a police building on Tuesday evening to be booked, he turned and appeared to flash a smile.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a public university with an enrollment of about 30,000 students. It is the largest postsecondary educational institution in the Charlotte area.
The campus was locked down Tuesday night because of the shooting, but the lockdown was lifted Wednesday morning. Joan F. Lorden, the school\u2019s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said at a news conference late Tuesday that final exams scheduled through Sunday had been canceled, and that administrators were still considering plans for after that.<\/p>\n