killing his girlfriend and the professor who might have come between them. strange circumstances. after an intense manhunt police say the man they were looking for took his own life bringing an end to a tragic and emotional day for mississippi delta state university. university police say officers were in pursuit of this man 45-year-old shannon lamb. he was suspected in the death of his live in girlfriend amy prentice and professor schmidt. he said he wouldn t go to jail and he meant it. lamb ran into a wooded area they heard a gun shot and found him with a self-inflicted wound. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. police say the sequence of tragic events started monday morning. police say that s when lamb shot and killed his live in girlfriend then allegedly killed popular history professor ethan schmidt. it shattered the peace of this
anyone protest? absolutely not. they were thrilled to do it. a fox news alert. a suspected love triangle ends with three people dead this morning. delta state university professor shannon lamb, ending his own life, after allegedly killing his girlfriend and a colleague who may have come between them. the school was put on lockdown after professor ethan schmidt was shot while sitting at his own desk yesterday morning. police conducted a massive manhunt for lamb, eventually cornering him overnight and that s when the professor took his own life. that lockdown at the university has now been lifted. classes will not begin until tomorrow morning. extreme weather to bring you from out west. overnight rescuers searching for five people washed away by a powerful flood in utah. eight people died when a van and an suv packed with women and children was swept into a flood channel. in the mean time, in northern california, take a look at this. it looks more like the gates of hell. two wildfi
shooting death of the woman he lived with. it is shocking. i have dr. schmidt three days out of the five. it will be different without him. police have not revealed any motive for the shooting. lamb also taught at delta state and described as an expert on the geography of crime on the school s web site. we had a double helping of monday night football. eagles and falcons and 49ers and vikings. so who came out on top? andy scholes has the bleacher report next. diabetes, steady is exciting.
hurnt for a university shooting suspect is now over. the delta state university president confirms on twitter that police apprehended shannon lamb late monday night. lamb had been on the run all day since police found a university professor shot to death in his office. lamb is a teacher at the school and by all accounts a friend of the victim, ethan schmidt seen here in facebook photos. lamb is also accuse of killing a woman named amy prentice 300 miles away from that school. it happened earlier in the day. lamb and prentice apparently lived together. police have not disclosed a motive or what connection, if any, there was between prentice and schmidt. okay. we move on. 3:00 p.m. in australia where the country has new prime minister. up. i malcolm turnbull do swear that i will well and fully swefr the people of australia for the office of prime minister andly be faithful and true leader to
the mississippi campus shut down as officials searched for lamb. jonathan serrie is live with this story. how did they catch this suspect? police say it was an electronic license plate reader which detected the suspect s car crossing a bridge over the mississippi river. he ventured into arkansas and was trying to return to mississippi late last night. police followed the suspect into greeneville, mississippi. the car went into a subdivision. the suspect got out of his vehicle and ran into a wooded area. police went into the woods and found lamps d found lamb s body