Police say that the suspect in two shooting deaths in Mississippi was returning from Arkansas when a license plate reader picked up his plate as he crossed a bridge over the Mississippi River.
Cleveland Police Chief Charles "Buster" Bingham said Monday that Greenville police followed Shannon Lamb but did not try to apprehend him. Then Lamb pulled over and took off on foot.
Bingham said the police were waiting for backup when they heard a gunshot. When backup arrived, they searched and found Lamb with a gunshot wound to the head.
Lamb is suspected in the shooting deaths of two people in Mississippi including a woman he was living with and a teacher at Delta State University in Cleveland. The shooting sent the entire campus into lockdown, which was lifted late Monday. 11:30 p.m.
Delta State University police chief Lynn Buford told The Associated Press that Lamb died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. They took Lamb to the hospital in Greenville where Buford says he was pronounced dead.
Police say Lamb fatally shot the woman he lived with on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and also fatally shot 39-year-old history professor Ethan Schmidt on the Delta State University campus in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Monday. The woman was identified as 41-year-old Amy Prentiss.
