{"id":13653,"date":"2019-09-19T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3ab0132458"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:59:11","slug":"unc-charlotte-shooter-with-mental-disorder-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/09\/19\/unc-charlotte-shooter-with-mental-disorder-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC CHARLOTTE SHOOTER WITH MENTAL DISORDER PLEADS GUILTY, SENTENCED TO LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

23-year-old Trystan Terrell will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering two students and injuring four others when he opened fire on a classroom at the University of North Carolina Charlotte in Charlotte, NC, shooting indiscriminately in an attack he had been planning for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trystan gave a full confession to investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trystan had a mental disorder, yet he still plead guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, four counts of attempted first-degree murder, and discharging a firearm on educational property.<\/a> Trystan was given a sentence of 2 consecutive life sentences in prison on September 19, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trystan was autistic and suffered from a mental disorder, his family says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 30, 2019 at UNC Charlotte students were giving a presentation in an anthropology class at the Kennedy Building when Trystan burst into the class with a pistol and began firing at students seated at nearby tables.<\/a> The room erupted in chaos as students began to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellis Reed Parlier, 19, was likely the first victim struck by the gunfire. He was shot multiple times and died. During the attack, 21-year-old Riley Howell charged Trystan, knocking him off his feet and onto the floor. Riley suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including one at close range and died.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riley\u2019s actions ended the shooting and ultimately saved other classmates\u2019 lives. After being tackled by Riley, the defendant remained lying on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prosecutors say four additional students, Rami Alramadhan, Sean DeHart, Emily Houpt, and Drew Pescaro were transported to local hospitals, where they were treated for gunshot wounds. All four survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the murder scene on UNC Charlott’s campus Trystan had a pistol, an empty 17-round magazine, as well as 17 additional magazines that were each fully loaded with 17 live bullets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the semester, Trystan had been a student in the anthropology class he shot up. He had attended a few weeks of class but then withdrew entirely from the university. Trystan says he became interested in mass shootings and began planning an attack around August 2018. Trystan bought a gun and began practicing at a shooting range, he told no one about his plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trystan Terrell shot and killed several people on the University of North Carolina Charlotte’s campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19496,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13653\/revisions\/19496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}