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By Elisha Fieldstadt and Associated Press
The man accused of firing at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, killing two people and injuring four, was intrigued by foreign languages and not by arms, his grandfather said on Tuesday.
Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22, was charged with murder and attempted murder for shooting a UNC class on the last day of school.
Terrell's grandfather, Paul Rold, told The Associated Press that his grandson attended the UNC Charlotte and learned French and Portuguese with the help of language learning program that Rold had bought him.
Rold, who lives in Texas and was not aware of the shooting until the AP contacted him, said his grandchild had never shown of interest for firearms or weapons of all kinds.
"You're describing a foreign person for me," Rold told AP Tuesday night. "It's not in his DNA."
He added that the 22-year-old man had left Texas to settle in Charlotte with his father about two years after his mother's death.
University police chief, Jeffrey A. Baker, described Terrell as "no one who is on our radar."
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19-year-old Tristan Field, who was in the Kennedy campus building, when gunshots sounded from across the room, told NBC News that he was not there. Had not heard the word of the murderer.
"He just started shooting," Field said.
Three of the wounded were in critical condition Tuesday night, police said. A fourth person suffered less serious injuries.
Terrell was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon with the intention of killing, possessing a firearm on an educational property and releasing a firearm on a Educational property, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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