GREENVILLE, Miss. — A college instructor suspected in the fatal shootings of a woman he lived with on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast and a professor at Delta State University 300 miles away died Monday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after trying to flee police, authorities said.
Shannon Lamb had earlier told authorities that he was “not going to jail.”
Police in Greenville, Mississippi, were following Lamb as he was driving when the suspect pulled over and jumped out of his car, Lynn Buford, chief of the Delta State University police, told The Associated Press. One of the victims was killed at the university earlier Monday.
Police later heard one gunshot and then found Lamb, Buford said. They took him to a hospital in Greenville where he was pronounced dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Buford said.
This undated photo provided by Delta State University shows history professor Ethan Schmidt, who was killed Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. Police in Cleveland, Mississippi, where Delta State is located, confirmed Buford’s information at a news conference early Tuesday, adding that Lamb died from a gunshot wound to the head.