Wednesday is a sad anniversary in Chapel Hill.

Just after five o’clock the evening of Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Chapel Hill Police responded to a report of a triple shooting at the Finley Forest Condominiums in Chapel Hill.

Police found 23-year-old Deah Barakat, of Chapel Hill, his wife 21-year-old Yusor Abu-Salha, of Chapel Hill, and her sister 19-year-old Razan Abu-Salha, of Raleigh, dead at the scene from gunshot wounds.

A neighbor, 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks, was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting. Police said immediately after the shooting it was the result of an ongoing parking dispute. Family members and those who worked with the victims maintain it was a hate crime.

Inspiring stories have emerged over the past year of the work that was being done by the three victims, dubbed “Our Three Winners.”

Barakat, who was a student in the UNC School of Dentistry, had established a youcaring campaign to raise money to help provide dental service to Sryian refugees in Turkey. He and his wife, who would have started her first year of dental school at Carolina in the fall of 2015, were planning to travel to Turkey to offer care last summer.

They never got to take that trip.

But their mission of public service and helping those in need has been carried out over the past year by many, including classmates at UNC.

Kaushal Gandhi said in an earlier interview with WCHL that a motto developed in the dental school after Deah’s death.

“Every time I talk about this the first thing that comes to mind is when Deah passed away – especially in our class, Deah was my classmate – a phrase emerged,” she said. “And it was, ‘Live Like Deah.’”

Gandhi said that phrase – Live Like Deah – is now on the mind of many of the students as they try to help others.

“The obvious answer is Deah would have just provided service and given himself selflessly, like he always had,” she said. “And we just knew him to be this happy person. And he was always there to help somebody, whether it was a friend or a stranger.”

Gandhi said classmates immediately began working on a food drive to help Urban Ministries in Durham, one of the last non-profits that benefitted from Barakat’s service.

“It started off like that,” she said, “and then we wanted to commemorate Deah, Yusor and Razan because all three of them were so involved in service. And we decided to do a Deah Day of Service.”

That Day of Service covered a wide range of service projects all over the Triangle.

Christopher Walker is a fourth-year student in the School of Dentistry and class president. He told WCHL the day of the event in September that more than 350 students from the university’s dental, dental assistant and dental hygiene programs worked at over 20 locations across the area to get involved.

Walker said Barakat left a lasting impression, even through small actions.

“I just knew Deah as someone that was very giving of his time,” he says. “My favorite story about Deah is he understood that dental students were spending a lot of money on coffee at this coffee shop we have nearby that services the medical campus.

“And he just bought a coffee maker and stocked it and put it in the student lounge and sent out an e-mail to everybody and said, ‘Hey, have coffee, bring what you want.’”

Walker said seeing the initiative that Barakat always took when it came to helping others served as motivation.

“It was a kid like that that just inspired me to want to be better,” he says. “I’m a little bit older, I went back to school a little bit later, and to watch a young person have so much passion for giving back to his community, both locally and internationally, I felt like I wanted to be a part of doing something that really cements his legacy as being a really great student and a great servant of his neighborhood and his school.”

Gandhi said that the service projects won’t end as the one year anniversary of the shooting passes.

“We want to do an annual food drive,” she said. “We want to do an annual day of service at the school and whatever we can do to keep their legacy alive.”

The youcaring campaign that helped provide service to Syrian refugees had a goal of raising $20,000. It raised over $530,000.

Another youcaring page was established by the family to raise money for the Our Three Winners Endowment has raised over $875,000 of its $2 million goal.

A ceremony is scheduled on the UNC campus on Wednesday afternoon and then the NC State campus Wednesday evening. 97.9FM/1360 AM WCHL will broadcast the ceremony from UNC live at 1:15.