A candlelight vigil will be held Sunday in Civic Center park to commemorate three Muslim students killed this week in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The vigil, which begins at 5:45 p.m., is being sponsored by the Muslim Student Association, an organization based on the Auraria campus.
Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha were shot on Feb. 10 in an apartment near the University of North Carolina campus. Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha were dental students at UNC and recently married; Razan Abu-Salha was a design student at North Carolina State University.
“We condemn the ignorance that spurred the attack,” Nadeen Ibrahim, president of the Muslim Student Association, said in a release announcing the vigil.
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been arrested and charged with murder in the case. While the families of the deceased say the shootings were a hate crime, Hicks’ wife said the deaths came after a long-standing parking dispute at the apartment complex.
