HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - A man charged with trying to kill students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by driving through a popular campus gathering spot was indicted Monday on nine counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, also was indicted on four counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
Taheri-Azar is accused of driving through the gathering spot, known as the Pit, on March 3, hitting nine people. He has said his actions were in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims throughout the world caused by the United States.
Originally, Taheri-Azar was charged with nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury instead of five.
But four of those charges were reduced to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after testimony during the probable cause hearing.
That testimony indicated the four people were not seriously injured when they were hit, prosecutors said.
A court date has not been set.
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