The Latest: Teacher who killed 2 described as smart, funny

Investigators are searching for Shannon Lamb, displayed in a digital photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety investigators to members of the media and held by a reporter, who they now consider a suspect in the death of Delta State University history professor Ethan Schmidt, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, at the Cleveland, Miss., campus. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Investigators are searching for Shannon Lamb, displayed in a digital photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety investigators to members of the media and held by a reporter, who they now consider a suspect in the death of Delta State University history professor Ethan Schmidt, Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, at the Cleveland, Miss., campus. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

By Associated Press September 15, 2015 2 min read

GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) – The latest on the college professor who is accused of killing his girlfriend and driving 300 miles to Delta State University to gun down a fellow professor in his campus office. The gunman, Shannon Lamb, took his own life Monday night as police closed in on him (all times local):

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The college professor who is accused of killing his girlfriend and a colleague is being described by a longtime friend as smart, charismatic and funny.

Carla Hairston told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she and Shannon Lamb, the professor, grew up in the small city of Greenville, Mississippi.

Hairston remembered meeting Lamb through a mutual friend when she was 15 and he was 20. She said she and her friends were in high school, and he was the cool older guy who tried for several years to teach her to play guitar.