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A longtime business management professor who reportedly applied for a job at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas allegedly opened fire on the college campus on Wednesday, killing three university faculty members and critically injuring one before being killed by police.
Police believe a semi-retired professor was responsible for the deadly shooting at UNLV.
Key Facts
Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said law enforcement identified the suspect shortly after the shooting, but declined to release his name pending next-of-kin notification.
All three victims who died in the shooting, as well as the one person injured, were faculty members at UNLV, university President Keith Whitfield said in a statement Thursday afternoon
Two of those people were identified as UNLV Lee Business School Prof. Jerry Chang and assistant Prof. Patricia Navarro—the third person killed will be identified after next of kin are notified, school officials said.
The Associated Press and ABC reported Thursday the suspect was Anthony Polito, a 67-year-old career professor who was recently rejected after applying for a job at UNLV, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.
Polito taught operations management as an assistant professor at East Carolina University for over 15 years, the college confirmed, and resigned in 2017.
He received a PhD in operations management in 2002 from the University of Georgia, the university confirmed to Forbes.
On a personal website, Polito wrote about eccentric topics, including the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and finding intelligent life in the universe, and even claimed to have identified the Zodiac Killer.
Key Background
On Wednesday morning, a shooter opened fire inside Beam Hall, the building that houses UNLV’s business school. Three victims were killed, and a fourth was wounded and hospitalized in stable condition. Authorities have not confirmed if the victims were students or faculty at the college. The shooter was shot and killed by responding officers about 40 minutes after the first reports of shots fired. Sheriff McMahill called the shooting a “heinous, unforgivable crime” and thanked law enforcement for their quick and professional response. UNLV has since canceled classes for the remainder of the week, and a determination will be made if the college will remain closed for final exams next week.
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