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Man pleads guilty to 2015 murder of three Muslim students

By Zach Halaschak
Published June 12, 2019 4:22pm ET
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Man pleads guilty to 2015 murder of three Muslim students
In this March 14, 2017, file photo, Craig Hicks, charged with the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., listens to with attorney Steve Freedman as he makes an appearance in a Durham County courtroom in Durham, N.C. | (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP, FIle)

Four years after he was charged with killing three Muslim students, a North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to the slayings.

“I’ve wanted to plead guilty since day one,” 50-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks told the judge at a Wednesday court appearance filled with family and friends of the victims.

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