Collection: Updates on the Oct. 5 shooting at UA
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President Robert Robbins says over the past several months the University of Arizona has emphasized the safety and well-being of students and staff.
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Several measures, like an automated door-locking system, have been installed over the past few months, following the fatal shooting of a professor on the Tucson campus.
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The trail for former University of Arizona graduate student Murad Dervish was originally scheduled for September. It now is pushed back to at least May 2024.
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U of A leadership shakeup raises hopes campus safety will improveMajor leadership changes at the University of Arizona offer a ray of reassurance to the campus community amid safety concerns following a deadly shooting, a faculty leader and others say.
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About 40 showed up to rally for change in school policies and administration outside Old Main on the University of Arizona campus, May 4, 2023…
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About 40 students and supporters showed up in front of Old Main to rally for change in school policies and administration on the University of…
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After a "no confidence" vote by University of Arizona faculty over campus safety, both the provost and police chief are stepping down.
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For Star subscribers: The University of Arizona has named a chief safety officer and set up a safety advisory commission after a report said its lack of safety measures led up to the fatal shooting of a professor.
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UA President Robert Robbins says “we are mobilizing, taking these threats very, very seriously.” The threat was reported to police.
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For Star subscribers: "He should consider this a wake-up call, not a call for his resignation," a faculty leader said of U of A's president after a vote of no confidence.
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For Star subscribers: While the University of Arizona's president called for unity in pursuing a safer campus, his actions furthered division. In the end, accountability may matter more than unity.
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The Oct. 5 slaying of professor Tom Meixner in a campus attack showed a lack of protocols to have adequately responded to the crisis, a new report for the University of Arizona says.
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A faculty committee has stopped its investigation of the University of Arizona’s campus safety protocols, launched after Professor Thomas Meixner was killed. The panel says UA officials were unsupportive and dismissive.
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For Star subscribers: The University of Arizona questioned the legitimacy of a recent faculty-led report that cited mistrust and communication breakdowns in the campus security protocols Tom Meixner followed before an ex-student fatally shot the professor on campus.
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At the University of Arizona Faculty Senate meeting on Feb. 6, 2023, UA President takes "full responsibility" for campus safety breakdown befo…
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The General Faculty Committee on General Safety For All, which was created after the on-campus shooting death of Tom Meixner last fall, releas…
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For Star subscribers: A faculty committee investigated campus safety policies at the University of Arizona after an ex-graduate student with a known criminal history allegedly shot and killed a professor. Here is its preliminary report.
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The policy change comes after a former University of Arizona graduate student with a prior criminal record was accused of killing a professor on campus.
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For Star subscribers: Family members of hydrologist Thomas Meixner, interviewed for the first time, doubt he would want them to sue the university. But they're anxious for the university to fix its shortfalls.
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The University of Arizona's Counseling and Psych Services saw a 60% increase in students seeking crisis care in fall 2022.
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About two weeks after Tom Meixner was shot and killed on campus Oct. 5, the compensation-based benefits his family relied on were terminated.
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Before attending the University of Arizona, Murad Dervish was a student and teacher's assistant at San Diego State University, where he also harassed and threatened professors and students via email.
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Detective said ex-student attempted to buy gun earlier in year, but couldn't agree on price with the seller.
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Multiple students and staff members saw the former UA student lurking around the John W. Harshbarger Building moments before opening fire and chasing professor down hallway to office.
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On March 8, Murad Dervish was issued a no contact order by the University of Arizona due to his ongoing threats to professors in the hydrology and atmospheric sciences department. San Diego State University also told UA police of similar threats by Dervish to staff at that school.
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Crisis management consulting firm, PAX Group, LLC, is expected to release its findings and recommendation in two months.
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For Star subscribers: Eyad Atallah had sometimes menacing communications with accused campus killer Murad Dervish — and feared for his life. He can't accept that the killing of his colleague Thomas Meixner was unavoidable.
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Pima County's attorney says there wasn't enough evidence to charge Murad Dervish with threats/intimidation over his behavior toward University of Arizona faculty before an Oct. 5 fatal shooting.
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The University of Arizona Police Department twice sought to have the Pima County Attorney's Office charge an expelled student for threats, before the killing of professor Thomas Meixner. But the PCAO says the cases did not meet the threshold for prosecution.
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According to the search warrant return, five knives, two machetes, a Ruger Max 9mm pistol, a loaded Raven Arms .25-caliber pistol, boxes of ammunition and ammo magazines were found in Murad Dervish’s vehicle.
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On Monday, UA President Robert Robbins said the school has begun the work to retain independent external experts in security and threat assessments to begin a comprehensive review of all aspects of campus safety, violence prevention and public safety response.
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The University of Arizona had plenty of warning, as recently as Sept. 6, that Murad Dervish might pose a serious danger to faculty and other members of the hydrology department, faculty emails show.
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After the loss of University of Arizona professor Thomas Meixner, friends, family and the community gathered by Old Main to participate in a c…
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An interim complaint also said a second person was slightly injured in shooting that killed hydrology professor.
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Murad Dervish is facing charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault of a deadly weapon from Wednesday on-campus shooting.
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Thomas Meixner, an expert on water issues, is remembered as “funny, witty, warm and generous.”
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Chief Paula Balafas of the University of Arizona Police Department shared information on the shooting death of a male professor on Oct. 5. The…
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Suspected shooter was arrested later in the day by DPS troopers on Interstate 8 near Gila Bend.
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Colleagues of Tom Meixner, the slain University of Arizona hydrology professor, have sided with a faculty committee that found a breakdown of trust and communication about campus safety.
The UA school official told police the former student's demeanor was becoming more aggressive and believed he was capable of carrying out any threat, leading her to work from home for two days because she “just doesn’t know what this guy will do.”
Murad Dervish, 48, a former University of Arizona graduate student, is on trial for the on-campus killing of Thomas Meixner, a professor.
