PHOENIX — A former College of Arizona scholar was arrested Wednesday after a taking pictures on the Tucson, Arizona, campus left one professor lifeless, in accordance with campus police.
The incident started round 2 p.m. when campus police acquired a name from somebody contained in the Harshbarger Constructing, which homes the Division of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, requesting police escort a former scholar out of the constructing.
Officers have been on their manner once they acquired reviews of a taking pictures that left one individual wounded and that the gunman had fled, campus police Chief Paula Balafas mentioned.
Firefighters transported the sufferer to the hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless. There have been no different accidents reported.
Arizona state troopers stopped Murad Dervish, 46, in a car about 120 miles northwest of the Tucson campus, only a few hours after the taking pictures, Balafas mentioned.
Balafas declined to determine the sufferer, however she confirmed he was a professor of hydrology. She didn’t know what the historical past was between Dervish, who used a handgun, and the professor however confirmed that Dervish is a former scholar of the professor.
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“We really feel so extremely dangerous for the professor’s household, pals and colleagues. Our hearts actually simply exit to them,” Balafas mentioned throughout a information convention. “It’s simply a kind of issues that generally you possibly can’t even predict.”
UA college students acquired campus alerts relating to a taking pictures that occurred on the John W. Harshbarger constructing on the college’s essential campus in Tucson and all in-person courses have been canceled for the rest of the varsity day.
College police blocked off the world surrounding the Harshbarger constructing and instructed folks to keep away from the world, which was beneath lockdown. The constructing the place the taking pictures occurred is simply northwest of the college bookstore and scholar union.
Courses will resume Thursday, in accordance with Balafas, however the constructing the place the taking pictures occurred could stay closed.
It was additionally 20 years in the past this month {that a} disgruntled College of Arizona nursing scholar shot and killed three nursing professors earlier than taking his personal life.
Contributing: The Related Press