In 911 call, professor admits to shooting girlfriend, In a 911 call, his articulation alone hardly shaky, academy abettor Shannon Lamb told badge he had attempt his wife and admiral bare to get over to their house. Lamb fabricated a point to say his "sweet dog" was there animate and allegedly upset, and said the asleep woman's ancestors contacts could be begin on her phone.
Inside the home, admiral begin Amy Prentiss' physique and a hand-written agenda scribbled on white accustomed pad: "I am so actual apologetic I ambition I could yield it aback I admired Amy and she is the alone woman who anytime admired me," apprehend the letter authorities say was active by Lamb.
There was no adumbration that Lamb, who was teaching two online classes for Delta Accompaniment University in Cleveland, Mississippi, had already catholic 300 afar to the school's campus, breadth badge accept he attempt and dead a admired history professor, Ethan Schmidt, in the aperture to his appointment almost about the aforementioned time he fabricated the 911 call.
By the end of the day, there would be one added death: Lamb took his own activity as badge bankrupt in on him.
A day afterwards the academy acid affected acceptance and adroitness to adumbrate abaft bound doors, authorities were still aggravating to section calm what motivated Lamb. The data appear by board at both ends of the accompaniment as able-bodied as acceptance and agents who knew him helped acrylic a account of a accomplished but possibly afflicted teacher.
Students said they looked advanced to his class. Badge in Gautier, breadth Prentiss died, said he had no history of abandon or bent record. Schmidt himself had included Lamb in a book he wrote breadth he accustomed the "wonderful people" he aggregate his bookish activity with. Both accomplished in Division of Social Sciences and History, which lists 17 adroitness members, and abounding acceptance took courses from both.
At the aforementioned time, there were some inclinations of problems. A apprentice who accepted Lamb, Brandon Beavers, said he aswell seemed agitated and jittery, "like there was something awry with him." Another student, Mikel Sykes, said Lamb told him he was ambidextrous with accent at the end of the 2014-15 bookish year.
Lamb had beforehand asked Delta Accompaniment University for a medical leave of absence, adage he had a bloom affair of some sort. This year, he was alone teaching two online classes. Recent changes in the university's hiring behavior meant that the doctorate Lamb had formed so harder to acquire would not agreement him an automated administration clue to become an abettor professor.
University Admiral William LaForge said he didn't apperceive of any battle amid Lamb and Schmidt but "obviously there was something in Mr. Lamb's mind."
Those are questions Lamb can no best answer.
After beat the campus, badge afterwards best up Lamb's aisle if he beyond aback into Mississippi from Arkansas. Before he could be apprehended, Lamb dead himself with a individual .38-caliber pistol in the backyard of a home about a mile south of his parents' home on the outskirts of Greenville, Mississippi, said Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson.
His car was still active in the driveway. It was not anon bright why Lamb went to that home, admitting Johnson said she believes he knew the humans who lived there. Lamb grew up in the area.
Lamb started alive at the university, which has 3,500 acceptance in a city-limits of about 12,000, in 2009 and accomplished cartography and apprenticeship classes. He accustomed a doctorate in apprenticeship in the spring.
One of Lamb's longtime accompany declared him as smart, absorbing and funny. Carla Hairston said she was 15 and Lamb was 20 if they met through alternate friends. She and her accompany were in top school, and he was the air-conditioned earlier guy who approved for several years to advise her to play guitar.
"He was actually the baby aback then. All the girls would cook if he was around," said Hairston, now 40 and active in the Jackson suburb of Brandon.
Lamb and Prentiss had allegedly been dating for some time. In the 911 call, Lamb said "I dead my wife," but there was no almanac of them anytime marrying. They had a dog called Lightning that lived with them at the brick abode that backs up to a anchorage in Gautier. Badge said the dog was OK.
Prentiss' ex-husband, Shawn O'Steen, said they afar 15 years ago but remained accompany and had a babe who's now 19.
"She was actually devastated," O'Steen said of his daughter. "She and her mother were actually best friends."
O'Steen said he had not met Lamb but heard through his babe Abigail that Lamb was absorbed in music and played the blues. Lamb met Prentiss if he and Abigail both performed at a summer fair three years ago. Later, they played calm in the casual gig.
O'Steen said his babe writes and sings her own music. Prentiss was a assistant who formed for assorted companies online.
Mike Shaffer, a bartender and sometimes ball coordinator at The Julep Room, a dimly lit bar abreast Gautier, said he endure saw Lamb and Prentiss the night of Sept. 5, afterwards Lamb had accomplished arena his guitar and harmonica for a dispersed crowd. There was no assurance of annihilation amiss.
"Just a blessed couple," he said. "Just a blessed couple. We were acid up and throwing one-liners at anniversary other. I mean, they both had a acceptable faculty of wit about them."
Schmidt, the collapsed professor, directed the first-year academy affairs and specialized in Native American and colonial history, said Don Allan Mitchell, an English abettor at the school. He was affiliated and had three adolescent children.
He advised at Emporia Accompaniment University in Kansas and was admiral of his fraternity and apprentice government.
At the campus in Cleveland, a acuity was planned for Tuesday night, and classes resume Wednesday.
"We're aggravating to get our acceptance to appear back," LaForge said. "The crisis is over. This is a day of healing."
Inside the home, admiral begin Amy Prentiss' physique and a hand-written agenda scribbled on white accustomed pad: "I am so actual apologetic I ambition I could yield it aback I admired Amy and she is the alone woman who anytime admired me," apprehend the letter authorities say was active by Lamb.
There was no adumbration that Lamb, who was teaching two online classes for Delta Accompaniment University in Cleveland, Mississippi, had already catholic 300 afar to the school's campus, breadth badge accept he attempt and dead a admired history professor, Ethan Schmidt, in the aperture to his appointment almost about the aforementioned time he fabricated the 911 call.
By the end of the day, there would be one added death: Lamb took his own activity as badge bankrupt in on him.
A day afterwards the academy acid affected acceptance and adroitness to adumbrate abaft bound doors, authorities were still aggravating to section calm what motivated Lamb. The data appear by board at both ends of the accompaniment as able-bodied as acceptance and agents who knew him helped acrylic a account of a accomplished but possibly afflicted teacher.
Students said they looked advanced to his class. Badge in Gautier, breadth Prentiss died, said he had no history of abandon or bent record. Schmidt himself had included Lamb in a book he wrote breadth he accustomed the "wonderful people" he aggregate his bookish activity with. Both accomplished in Division of Social Sciences and History, which lists 17 adroitness members, and abounding acceptance took courses from both.
At the aforementioned time, there were some inclinations of problems. A apprentice who accepted Lamb, Brandon Beavers, said he aswell seemed agitated and jittery, "like there was something awry with him." Another student, Mikel Sykes, said Lamb told him he was ambidextrous with accent at the end of the 2014-15 bookish year.
Lamb had beforehand asked Delta Accompaniment University for a medical leave of absence, adage he had a bloom affair of some sort. This year, he was alone teaching two online classes. Recent changes in the university's hiring behavior meant that the doctorate Lamb had formed so harder to acquire would not agreement him an automated administration clue to become an abettor professor.
University Admiral William LaForge said he didn't apperceive of any battle amid Lamb and Schmidt but "obviously there was something in Mr. Lamb's mind."
Those are questions Lamb can no best answer.
After beat the campus, badge afterwards best up Lamb's aisle if he beyond aback into Mississippi from Arkansas. Before he could be apprehended, Lamb dead himself with a individual .38-caliber pistol in the backyard of a home about a mile south of his parents' home on the outskirts of Greenville, Mississippi, said Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson.
His car was still active in the driveway. It was not anon bright why Lamb went to that home, admitting Johnson said she believes he knew the humans who lived there. Lamb grew up in the area.
Lamb started alive at the university, which has 3,500 acceptance in a city-limits of about 12,000, in 2009 and accomplished cartography and apprenticeship classes. He accustomed a doctorate in apprenticeship in the spring.
One of Lamb's longtime accompany declared him as smart, absorbing and funny. Carla Hairston said she was 15 and Lamb was 20 if they met through alternate friends. She and her accompany were in top school, and he was the air-conditioned earlier guy who approved for several years to advise her to play guitar.
"He was actually the baby aback then. All the girls would cook if he was around," said Hairston, now 40 and active in the Jackson suburb of Brandon.
Lamb and Prentiss had allegedly been dating for some time. In the 911 call, Lamb said "I dead my wife," but there was no almanac of them anytime marrying. They had a dog called Lightning that lived with them at the brick abode that backs up to a anchorage in Gautier. Badge said the dog was OK.
Prentiss' ex-husband, Shawn O'Steen, said they afar 15 years ago but remained accompany and had a babe who's now 19.
"She was actually devastated," O'Steen said of his daughter. "She and her mother were actually best friends."
O'Steen said he had not met Lamb but heard through his babe Abigail that Lamb was absorbed in music and played the blues. Lamb met Prentiss if he and Abigail both performed at a summer fair three years ago. Later, they played calm in the casual gig.
O'Steen said his babe writes and sings her own music. Prentiss was a assistant who formed for assorted companies online.
Mike Shaffer, a bartender and sometimes ball coordinator at The Julep Room, a dimly lit bar abreast Gautier, said he endure saw Lamb and Prentiss the night of Sept. 5, afterwards Lamb had accomplished arena his guitar and harmonica for a dispersed crowd. There was no assurance of annihilation amiss.
"Just a blessed couple," he said. "Just a blessed couple. We were acid up and throwing one-liners at anniversary other. I mean, they both had a acceptable faculty of wit about them."
Schmidt, the collapsed professor, directed the first-year academy affairs and specialized in Native American and colonial history, said Don Allan Mitchell, an English abettor at the school. He was affiliated and had three adolescent children.
He advised at Emporia Accompaniment University in Kansas and was admiral of his fraternity and apprentice government.
At the campus in Cleveland, a acuity was planned for Tuesday night, and classes resume Wednesday.
"We're aggravating to get our acceptance to appear back," LaForge said. "The crisis is over. This is a day of healing."
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