Suspect in professor’s shooting at North Carolina university bought gun, went to range, warrants say

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Federal search warrants have revealed new details about a shooting in August on the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus that left a professor dead. Warrant documents state the graduate student charged in the shooting had visited a gun range the day before Zijie Yan was killed inside a laboratory building at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and had bought a pistol. Tailei Qi was charged with murder and a gun-possession count, but he has been found unfit for trial due to likely schizophrenia. The shooting resulted in an hours-long campus lockdown and police manhunt that frightened students and faculty.