The school was placed on lock-down when the shooting was first reported Monday. Students, faculty and staff were told to take shelter and stay away from windows. An official says a professor has been shot and killed inside an office at Delta State University in Mississippi.
The professor killed in his office at a university in Mississippi has been identified as Ethan Schmidt, who worked in the history department.
Murray Roark, deputy coroner in Bolivar County, says Schmidt was killed in his office Monday at Delta State University.
The suspect in the shooting has not yet been identified and remains at large. However, Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, says the suspect is no longer believed to be on the campus.
The 3,500-student university is in Cleveland, in Mississippi’s Delta region near the Arkansas-Mississippi state line.
Authorities have been sweeping buildings at a college in Mississippi where a professor was killed, searching for the shooter who remains at large.
Bill Hays, an English professor at Delta State University, says a SWAT team checked his office while looking for the shooter. Another professor, Don Allan Mitchell, says officers were sweeping buildings as helicopters circled overhead.
Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, says the suspect is no longer believed to be on the Delta State University campus. He did not immediately elaborate, and it was not clear how investigators reached that conclusion. The suspect’s possible whereabouts also were not immediately clear.
