An instructor at Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi, appears to have shot and killed the woman with whom he spent the summer in Gautier, MS, on the gulf. He then shot and killed a fellow faculty member at Delta State in northern MS.
Perhaps he figured the penalty for two murders is no worse than one, so he might as well conclude some unfinished business at school. See a Reuters story at Yahoo News and a more detailed story in the Biloxi/Gulfport paper, the SunHerald.
I've always said academic politics are brutal, but this is over the top. So is the story of the Business School Dean at Stanford University who is resigning after firing the faculty member husband of the faculty woman with whom he was having an affair. That is some kind of slimy. See the story at Poets and Quants.
Update: A more recent story in the SunHerald says suspect Shannon Lamb earned his doctorate recently at Delta State, where he remained to teach. I wonder if the murdered professor was a member of Lamb's dissertation committee?
Forty years ago I had a pain-in-the-butt dissertation committee member I wouldn't have missed had he stepped in front of a bus. He cost me a year of make-work drudgery, which I slogged through. Some wouldn't be as forgiving as I was.
Further Update: Refusing to be taken alive, suspect Lamb shot himself fatally as police chased him. Ofttimes a self-administered death penalty is best for all concerned.
