Funerals held for Muslim students in North Carolina

The prayer service.   (David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times)

Mourners with the casket of a slain Muslim student.   (Brendan Smialowski / AFP-Getty Images)

Namee Barakat, center, father of victim Deah Barakat, kisses his wife, Leila Barakat, after a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday. Police probing the deaths of Deah Barakat, his wife and sister-in-law, all Muslims, are looking into whether the slayings were racially motivated.   (Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)

Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, sits in the Durham County, N.C., courtroom Wednesday for his first appearance in the shooting deaths of three Muslim students. Hicks has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and is being held without bond.   (Sara D. Davis / Getty Images)

Samantha Maness, 25, lives near Craig Stephen Hicks, the man charged with killing three Muslim students in what police said was an dispute over parking in Chapel Hill, N.C. Maness said Hicks was an angry man who confronted fellow residents and shouted at them about parking and noise.  (David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times)

A makeshift memorial is set up at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill, N.C., in remembrance of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, who were killed on Tuesday.   (Chris Seward / Associated Press)

The apartment building in Chapel Hill, N.C., where three Muslim students were shot and killed Tuesday, is shown. A resident of the building, Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was charged with three counts of murder in the shootings.  (David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times)

Flowers are left outside the apartment building where three Muslim students were shot dead Tuesday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Police said a longstanding dispute over a parking space apparently triggered the killings.   (David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times)