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A professor was killed in his office at Delta State University in
Mississippi, forcing terrified students and teachers to hunker down in
classrooms as investigators searched for another school employee in
connection with the killing, officials said Monday.
Cleveland Police Chief Charles
"Buster" Bingham said during a news conference that authorities have
identified Shannon Lamb as a "person of interest" in the shooting of
history professor Ethan Schmidt. Lamb is no longer believed to be on the
Delta State campus.
Bingham
also said police have information suggesting Lamb may have been involved
in another slaying in the south Mississippi city of Gautier, about 300
miles away.
Gautier police
spokesman Matthew Hoggatt told The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/1gmKAle)
that a woman was found dead in her home, and that Lamb is the suspect in
her death.
"We're working
right now under the assumption that both events are related," Hoggatt
said. "We hope that they are not. But at this point in time, information
indicates that they probably are linked in some way, shape or form."