Mohammed Taheriazar
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Born May 5th 1983 in Tehran, Mohammed Reza Taheriazar was charged with nine counts of attempted murder, stemming driving his Grand Cherokee into a student gathering center at the University of North Carolina on March 4, 2006. After he turned himself in to police, he said he had done it "to avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide."
Taheriazar had moved to the United States with his parents and older sister in 1985. In 2001, he was accepted into the University, and he graduated with a BA majoring in psychology and philosophy in 2005 after making the dean's list of honour students.
Taheriazar had previously been arrested — on June 16, 2003 — for reckless driving.[1]
Of the nine people struck by Taheriazar, four students and a non-student required minor medical attention.
Taheriazar is being held at the North Carolina Central Prison on $5.5 million bail.
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