UNCC Shooting Victim Reed Parker Remembered

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — May 5, 2019 The parents of a student slain during a shooting at a North Carolina university are remembering their son as reserved but witty in some of their first public comments.

Reed Parlier, previously identified by authorities by his first name Ellis, will be remembered at an upcoming family memorial service. His parents declined to give specifics to preserve the family's privacy.

Brian Parlier and Julie Parlier remember their son as a kind, quiet young man with a witty sense of humor. They said he was academically gifted, and was studying IT software development in the hopes of becoming a game developer.

Parlier was extremely close with his family, especially his younger sister, and loved to visit family in the western part of the state to go hiking in the mountains.

Parlier was one of two students killed in the attack.

The other was Riley Howell of Waynesville.

Twenty-two-year-old Trystan Andrew Terrell faces murder charges and other counts in the university shooting that killed two and wounded four.