A shooting Monday at Delta State University in Mississippi left a professor dead, Reuters reports. The school remains on lockdown and the suspect is still on the loose, the Clarion-Ledger newspaper reported.
Delta State University is a 3,500-student public university located about 120 miles northwest of Jackson in Cleveland, Mississippi.
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