When asked for his name, the geography and social education professor declines to give it. Police now suspect that he was already heading to Delta State’s Cleveland campus – roughly 300 miles away – to carry out his next killing when he made the call.

While on the run on Monday, Lamb made statements to family members, which were relayed to police, that he would not turn himself in, Hoggatt said.

Lamb allegedly killed 41-year-old Prentiss Monday and called police to report the murder.

The letter found in Amy Prentiss’ home in Gautier, Mississippi. Hours after shooting Ethan Schmidt, Lamb was spotted driving through Greenville, Miss., and officers there tried to pull him over.

“It was probably the scariest thing I have been through in a while”, a student, who had Schmidt as a professor, said.

[Professor shot and killed in his office at Delta State University].

The signature at the bottom of the page reads Shannon Lamb. Investigators are still exploring a motive for why a professor fatally shot a colleague on campus and later took his own life. He was teaching two online classes this semester, but an in-person class had been cancelled, LaForge said. And the school had planned to celebrate its 90th anniversary Tuesday – some of the festivities were even supposed to be in Jobe Hall where the shooting happened – but LaForge said that event will be rescheduled.

The body of Amy Prentiss is in Jackson for an autopsy. Gautier police released a note Lamb left behind, reading: “I wish I could take it back”.

News of Shannon Lamb’s death late Monday night brought to a close a chaotic, frightening day during which students and faculty at Delta State University hid in their rooms as authorities scoured the campus looking for Lamb.

She said Tyler kept a cool demeanor the entire time, which helped calm some of her nerves. “She and her mother were absolutely best friends”, O’Steen said.

“It didn’t end the way we wanted it to”.

Students leave a counseling session at Delta State University, …

Prentiss’ ex-husband said they divorced 15 years ago, and remained friends and had a daughter who’s now 19.

Michelle Roberts, the vice president of university relations spoke out about the shooting when she said, “We are grieving on this campus with this loss, and our condolences are with the family at this time”. “We were cutting up and throwing one-liners at each other”, he said.

It later confirmed that Ethan Schmidt, a professor of American history, had been killed.