From staff reports CHAPEL HILL The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trust- ees is offering a $25,000 reward through the Chapel Hill-Carrboro-UNC Crime Stoppers program for infor- mation leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the death of student Faith Danielle Hedgepeth. The Chapel Hill Police Depart- ment has said the case is a homi- cide. They ask anyone with infor- mation to call the department’s tip line at 919-614-6363 or Crime Stoppers at 919-942-7515. Calls to Crime Stoppers are confidential. The Haliwa-Saponi Tribe, of which Hedgepeth was a mem- ber, and Hawthorne at the View Apartments, where she lived, have also pledged $1,000 each to the Crime Stoppers reward fund. Anyone may contribute to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro-UNC Crime Stoppers program, a nonprofit or- ganization. Tax-deductible contri- butions may be sent to Crime Stoppers, P.O. Box 1076, Carrbo- ro, NC 27510. Donors may request that the contribution be used in the Hedgepeth case. The $25,000 reward is from the UNC trustees’ private funds, not state money, according to Susan Hudson of UNC News Services. On Tuesday, police said a judge had ordered 911 record- ings sealed in the case. Sgt. Joshua Mecimore, a po- lice spokesman, said the record- ings and search warrants related to the homicide investigation have been sealed indefinitely to protect evidence. Police also have not released a cause of death pending a Chapel Hill medical examiner’s report, Mec- imore said. “It’s for accuracy and, right now, for investigative reasons,” he said. “There are details relat- ed to the incident that only someone involved or investiga- tors may know.” Friends found Hedgepeth, 19, dead Friday in her apartment at Hawthorne at the View on Old Chapel Hill Road. A junior, Hed- gepeth was a biology major from Warrenton. Hundreds of students, family and friends met Monday night at the Pit, the brick courtyard at UNC-CH where students often gather, to remember Hedgepeth. Many asked how someone could have killed the young woman, who planned to be a pediatrician or teacher in her small tribe of 4,000 members, most of whom live about 90 minutes northeast of Raleigh. UNC offers $25,000 reward in student’s death Junior Faith Danielle Hedgepeth was found dead Friday Hedgepeth Online Stay informed: Crime and safety stories, nando.com/crime; latest arrests, nando.com/arrests.
