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Tuesday 15 September 2015
At Press Time:
Professor fatally shot on US campus; suspect at large
JEFF AMY Mississippi Highway Patrol Law enforcement officers gather on the Delta State University campus to search for an active
EMILY PETTUS spokesman Johnny Pou- shooter in connection with a the shooting of history professor Ethan Schmidt in his office at at Delta
Associated Press los said investigators are State University in Cleveland, Miss., Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The authorities are looking for another
CLEVELAND, Mississippi searching for a Dodge car school employee in connection with the killing.
(AP) — A professor was that they believe Lamb is
killed in his office at Delta driving. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
State University in Missis- The 3,500-student university
sippi, forcing terrified stu- in Cleveland, in Mississippi’s
dents and teachers to hun- Delta region near the Ar-
ker down in classrooms as kansas-Mississippi state line,
investigators searched for was first put on lockdown
another school employee around 10:45 a.m. amid re-
in connection with the kill- ports of an active shooter.
ing, officials said Monday. Everyone on campus was
Cleveland Police Chief told to take shelter, away
Charles “Buster” Bingham from windows.
said during a news confer- Charlie King was in a history
ence that authorities have class down the hall from
identified Shannon Lamb where the shooting oc-
as a “person of interest” in curred.
the shooting of history pro- “A few minutes into the
fessor Ethan Schmidt. Lamb class, we heard these pop-
is no longer believed to be ping noises and we all went
on the Delta State campus. completely silent,” he said.
Lamb received a doc- Some people thought that
torate in education from it might be a desk or door
Delta State University in the closing or firecrackers, but
spring 2015, according to a King said he thought it
copy of his resume posted sounded like gunshots. A
on the university’s website. few minutes later a police
He started working there in officer — gun drawn —
2009 and taught geogra- burst into the windowless
phy and education class- room and ordered every-
es, and volunteered with one to get against the wall
Habitat for Humanity, ac- away from the door. Some
cording to the resume. people also hid in a stor-
Bingham also said police age closet, King said. The
have information suggest- officer didn’t explain what
ing Lamb may have been was going on, but King said
involved in another slaying the students understood.
in the south Mississippi city “We put two and two to-
of Gautier, about 300 miles gether,” he said. The pro-
(480 kilometers) away. fessor gave the students
Gautier police spokesman chairs to throw if the shooter
Matthew Hoggatt told came in, said King’s friend,
The Sun Herald (http://bit. Christopher Walker Todd.
ly/1gmKAle) that a wom- Eventually police ushered
an was found dead in her the students into another
home, and that Lamb is the building and questioned
suspect in her death. them about what they’d
“We’re working right now seen and how many shots
under the assumption that they heard.
both events are related,” Freshman Noah Joyner, 18,
Hoggatt said. “We hope was in his dorm building
that they are not. But at this when reports of an active
point in time, information shooter began to spread.
indicates that they proba- He hunkered down in a
bly are linked in some way, bathroom and heard oth-
shape or form.” ers desperate to get in.q
