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UNC suspect was 'nice guy': Chapel Hill rampage stuns South Meck High classmate who knew him as `Mo-Mo'.
Byline: Sharif Durhams and Eric Frazier
Mar. 5--CARRBORO -- UNC Chapel Hill police say a former Charlotte resident told them he drove an SUV through a crowd on campus to avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide.
The news stunned a former classmate who attended South Mecklenburg High School with Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a native of Iran.
"We called him Mo-Mo," recalled Erin Ludwick, a 2001 graduate of South Mecklenburg. "I spoke to him many, many times. (He was) a very nice guy. I can't believe this happened."
Police said Taheri-azar's rented silver Jeep Cherokee hit nine people Friday as it tore through the Pit, a sunken brick-paved campus hangout. Five students and a visiting lecturer were taken to UNC Hospitals; all six had been released by late Friday.
Police are holding Taheri-azar in a Raleigh prison on $5.5 million bond, and have charged him with nine counts of attempted murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly…
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