Suspect arrested for UNC Charlotte shootings

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Two people are dead, and four face life-threatening injuries following a shooting on a North Carolina college campus.

And, police have arrested a suspect in the case. They say he was armed with a pistol, and was quickly disarmed by officers.
Cell phone video shows officers taking away the person they believe opened fire on students at the University of North Carolina Charlotte campus.

He’s identified as 22-year-old Trystan Andrew Terrell, a dropout student who attended UNCC last semester.

The shooting happened in a classroom during student presentations.

The 22-year-old Charlotte man accused of shooting six people Tuesday at UNC Charlotte is facing two counts of murder, according to Mecklenburg County records.

Trystan Andrew Terrell was arrested on the campus by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Tuesday after six people were shot on the north Charlotte campus, creating widespread panic among students and faculty. He is scheduled to have a first appearance in Mecklenburg County Court Thursday afternoon, according to jail records.

Two of the victims died, and the others remain hospitalized. Three of the four are in critical condition, UNCC police said in a Tuesday press conference.

CMPD has not identified the four wounded people. However, Alpha Tau Omega National Fraternity posted on Facebook Tuesday that one of its members, Drew Pescaro, was among the injured. Pescaro’s Facebook page says his home is in Apex, and he’s originally from Rutland, Mass.

Investigators have not released a possible motive in the shootings.

Terrell was booked in the jail at about 5 a.m. Wednesday and remains in custody. He is listed as having a Charlotte address.

It is Terrell’s first arrest in North Carolina, according to a review of state records. Voter registration records show he lived in an apartment on Weddington Avenue off East Seventh Street in Charlotte.

In addition two counts of murder, Terrell is charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder, four counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, one count of having a gun on education property and one count of discharging a firearm on education property, records show.

Terrell and his father moved to Charlotte from the Dallas area about two years ago after his mother died, Terrell's grandfather, Paul Rold of Arlington, Texas, said.

Terrell is on the autism spectrum but "clever as can be," and he never showed any interest in guns or other weapons, Rold said, The Associated Press reported.

The suspect is autistic.
What we know about the suspected UNC Charlotte shooter