North Carolina to pay family of UNC professor to settle wrongful death claim for campus shooting

The state of North Carolina agreed to pay a $750,000 settlement to a wrongful death claim filed by the family of a UNC-Chapel Hill physics professor who was shot and killed on campus in 2023.

According to our newsgathering partners at the News and Observer, the claim, which was filed by Dr. Zijie Yan’s wife and children, said the university took some responsibility in Yan’s death, stating that he “was killed by a UNC Student who suffered from a variety of severe mental illnesses, including Schizophrenia and who had threatened Professor Yan on several occasions.”

Yan was shot and killed in August 2023 in the second week of the fall semester. The shooting prompted an hours-long lockdown on campus…

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