Police: College shooting suspect left note of apology, The latest on the academy abettor who is accused of killing his adherent and active 300 afar to Delta Accompaniment University to gun down a adolescent abettor in his campus office. The gunman, Shannon Lamb, took his own activity Monday night as badge bankrupt in on him (all times local):
2:15 p.m. Authorities say a Delta Accompaniment University abettor who was dead by a aide on campus was attempt three times with a blaster and appeared to be entering or abrogation his appointment because he had a book bag on his shoulder.
Deputy Bolivar County Coroner Murray Roark said Tuesday that Ethan Schmidt was attempt with a .380-caliber handgun. Adolescent abecedary Shannon Lamb is accused of killing Schmidt on Monday at Delta State.
Roark says Schmidt was attempt in the neck, audacity and abreast the appropriate eye in the aperture of his office, which is central an appointment apartment on the additional attic of Jobe Hall.
Contractors were charwoman the appointment Tuesday, removing blood-soaked items and ripping up carpet.
Authorities accept not appear a motive in the killing. Lamb is aswell accused of fatally acid his girlfriend.
This is an amend from The Associated Press. Beforehand adventure below.
A university adviser told badge he dead his adherent at the home they aggregate in Mississippi, area board begin a agenda that said "I am so sorry" and gave no hints that he was already headed a few hundred afar arctic to annihilate a colleague, badge said Tuesday.
Shannon Lamb alleged 911 on Monday, cogent a bagman he had dead 41-year-old Amy Prentiss at the home they aggregate in Gautier. In the call, Lamb refuses to accord his name but says that ancestors acquaintance advice can be begin on Prentiss' phone. He says that their dog is still in the house, and "he's a candied dog and he's not traveling to bother anybody but I'm abiding he's upset."
It was there that admiral begin the note, which was accounting in all basic belletrist on a white, lined notepad: "I am so apologetic I ambition I could yield it back. I admired Amy and she is the alone getting who anytime admired me."
Police say Lamb attacked afresh anon afterwards that Monday morning 911 call, this time acid Delta Accompaniment University abettor Ethan Schmidt, 39, central his office. Lamb dead himself hours after as badge bankrupt in on him during a manhunt. He had told badge that he had no ambition of traveling to jail.
Matt Hoggatt, a agent for Gautier police, said during a account appointment Tuesday that Lamb had no bent record, and there was no adumbration that he and Prentiss had a history of calm violence.
Police accept not appear a motive for either shooting. 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."
Lamb had beforehand asked for a medical leave of absence, adage he had a bloom affair of some sort, but LaForge gave no added advice about it.
The acid led to an hours-long lockdown at the academy during which abashed acceptance and adroitness hid in classrooms and closets as authorities scoured the campus searching for Lamb. The campus was eventually austere by badge and authorities after begin Lamb if a authorization bowl clairvoyant best up his bowl as he beyond a arch over the Mississippi River from Arkansas aback into Mississippi, Cleveland badge Chief Charles "Buster" Bingham said.
Lamb started alive at the university in 2009 and accomplished cartography and apprenticeship classes. He accustomed a doctorate in apprenticeship in the spring. He was teaching two online classes this semester, but an in-person chic had been cancelled, LaForge said.
Lamb's career affairs at Delta Accompaniment may accept taken a about-face because of a university action change.
After LaForge became president, he assassin a new provost, Charles McAdams, who concluded a above-mentioned university convenance whereby an adviser who becoming a doctorate could automatically accompany the administration clue and become an abettor professor. LaForge said that convenance abandoned accompaniment action which requires an accessible seek for new abettor positions.
Brandon Beavers, an apprenticeship major, said he had a chic with Lamb endure year.
"It was like that chic you attending advanced to," Beavers said. "It was just cool."
However, he said Lamb seemed agitated.
"He was actually jittery, like there was something amiss with him," Beavers said. "He was never in a bad mood, but he was absolute shaky."
One of Lamb's longtime accompany declared him Tuesday as smart, absorbing and funny. Hairston and Lamb both grew up in Greenville, Mississippi.
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 a acceptable abecedary but she was an uncoordinated student, she said.
"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.
"He had the Elvis effect," Hairston said. "His articulation was just like velvet, and humans just admired to apprehend him talk."
Hairston said even if she capital to be a alienated boyhood and break out late, Lamb fabricated abiding she and her accompany went home by curfew. She said he was whip acute and would generally adduce song lyrics in conversation.
"He fabricated banal and abhorrent attending good," Hairston said.
Lamb and Prentiss had allegedly been dating for some time. Prentiss' ex-husband said they afar 15 years ago but remained accompany and had a babe who's now 19.
"She was actually devastated," she said of his daughter. "She and her mother were actually best friends."
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.
Karen Manners Smith, a history abettor at Emporia Accompaniment University in Kansas, area Schmidt studied, alleged him "a cool competent animal being."
"He was admiral of his fraternity, in apprentice government. He was an actually adorable student," she said.
At the campus of 3,500 students, the badge blockades had been removed, humans were out acid the grass and cartage confused normally, although there was not a lot of banal traffic. 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."
2:15 p.m. Authorities say a Delta Accompaniment University abettor who was dead by a aide on campus was attempt three times with a blaster and appeared to be entering or abrogation his appointment because he had a book bag on his shoulder.
Deputy Bolivar County Coroner Murray Roark said Tuesday that Ethan Schmidt was attempt with a .380-caliber handgun. Adolescent abecedary Shannon Lamb is accused of killing Schmidt on Monday at Delta State.
Roark says Schmidt was attempt in the neck, audacity and abreast the appropriate eye in the aperture of his office, which is central an appointment apartment on the additional attic of Jobe Hall.
Contractors were charwoman the appointment Tuesday, removing blood-soaked items and ripping up carpet.
Authorities accept not appear a motive in the killing. Lamb is aswell accused of fatally acid his girlfriend.
This is an amend from The Associated Press. Beforehand adventure below.
A university adviser told badge he dead his adherent at the home they aggregate in Mississippi, area board begin a agenda that said "I am so sorry" and gave no hints that he was already headed a few hundred afar arctic to annihilate a colleague, badge said Tuesday.
Shannon Lamb alleged 911 on Monday, cogent a bagman he had dead 41-year-old Amy Prentiss at the home they aggregate in Gautier. In the call, Lamb refuses to accord his name but says that ancestors acquaintance advice can be begin on Prentiss' phone. He says that their dog is still in the house, and "he's a candied dog and he's not traveling to bother anybody but I'm abiding he's upset."
It was there that admiral begin the note, which was accounting in all basic belletrist on a white, lined notepad: "I am so apologetic I ambition I could yield it back. I admired Amy and she is the alone getting who anytime admired me."
Police say Lamb attacked afresh anon afterwards that Monday morning 911 call, this time acid Delta Accompaniment University abettor Ethan Schmidt, 39, central his office. Lamb dead himself hours after as badge bankrupt in on him during a manhunt. He had told badge that he had no ambition of traveling to jail.
Matt Hoggatt, a agent for Gautier police, said during a account appointment Tuesday that Lamb had no bent record, and there was no adumbration that he and Prentiss had a history of calm violence.
Police accept not appear a motive for either shooting. 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."
Lamb had beforehand asked for a medical leave of absence, adage he had a bloom affair of some sort, but LaForge gave no added advice about it.
The acid led to an hours-long lockdown at the academy during which abashed acceptance and adroitness hid in classrooms and closets as authorities scoured the campus searching for Lamb. The campus was eventually austere by badge and authorities after begin Lamb if a authorization bowl clairvoyant best up his bowl as he beyond a arch over the Mississippi River from Arkansas aback into Mississippi, Cleveland badge Chief Charles "Buster" Bingham said.
Lamb started alive at the university in 2009 and accomplished cartography and apprenticeship classes. He accustomed a doctorate in apprenticeship in the spring. He was teaching two online classes this semester, but an in-person chic had been cancelled, LaForge said.
Lamb's career affairs at Delta Accompaniment may accept taken a about-face because of a university action change.
After LaForge became president, he assassin a new provost, Charles McAdams, who concluded a above-mentioned university convenance whereby an adviser who becoming a doctorate could automatically accompany the administration clue and become an abettor professor. LaForge said that convenance abandoned accompaniment action which requires an accessible seek for new abettor positions.
Brandon Beavers, an apprenticeship major, said he had a chic with Lamb endure year.
"It was like that chic you attending advanced to," Beavers said. "It was just cool."
However, he said Lamb seemed agitated.
"He was actually jittery, like there was something amiss with him," Beavers said. "He was never in a bad mood, but he was absolute shaky."
One of Lamb's longtime accompany declared him Tuesday as smart, absorbing and funny. Hairston and Lamb both grew up in Greenville, Mississippi.
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 a acceptable abecedary but she was an uncoordinated student, she said.
"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.
"He had the Elvis effect," Hairston said. "His articulation was just like velvet, and humans just admired to apprehend him talk."
Hairston said even if she capital to be a alienated boyhood and break out late, Lamb fabricated abiding she and her accompany went home by curfew. She said he was whip acute and would generally adduce song lyrics in conversation.
"He fabricated banal and abhorrent attending good," Hairston said.
Lamb and Prentiss had allegedly been dating for some time. Prentiss' ex-husband said they afar 15 years ago but remained accompany and had a babe who's now 19.
"She was actually devastated," she said of his daughter. "She and her mother were actually best friends."
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.
Karen Manners Smith, a history abettor at Emporia Accompaniment University in Kansas, area Schmidt studied, alleged him "a cool competent animal being."
"He was admiral of his fraternity, in apprentice government. He was an actually adorable student," she said.
At the campus of 3,500 students, the badge blockades had been removed, humans were out acid the grass and cartage confused normally, although there was not a lot of banal traffic. 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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