Police have launched a nationwide manhunt for Zinkhan after he fatally shot his ex-wife and two others. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESSATHENS (Georgia) - AUTHORITIES were on a nationwide manhunt for a marketing professor in the shooting deaths of three people Saturday at a community theatre near the University of Georgia.
Athens-Clarke County Police Captain Clarence Holeman said the shooter was the ex-husband of one of the people killed, Marie Bruce, who was in her 40s. Police were looking for George Zinkhan, 57, who has been a professor at the university in Athens since the 1990s.
The other victims were a male in his 40s and another male in his 60s. The three were shot multiple times, Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson said.
Police were called to the Athens Community Theatre less than a mile (about 1 kilometre) from campus about 12.25pm and found three people shot to death outside, Capt Holeman said. Two others were hit by shrapnel, and their conditions were not immediately known, Capt Holeman said.
The shooting happened as local actors were gathered at the theatre before an evening performance. Capt Holeman said there was some sort of discussion, possibly a disagreement, between the shooter and one of the victims when the shooting took place. Capt Holeman said a motive wasn't immediately known.
Two different guns were involved in the shooting, and neither was recovered at the scene, Capt Holeman said. Investigators searched Zinkhan's house on Saturday afternoon.
Authorities issued a nationwide alert for Zinkhan and his 2005 red Jeep Liberty with a Georgia license plate.
'Anyone who shoots three people is dangerous, that's the best way I can put it,' Capt Holeman said.
Dana Adams lives across the street from Zinkhan and said his two children played with hers.
Ms Adams said she didn't know Zinkhan well and described him as 'kind of a strange character,' who would sometimes walk off in the middle of a conversation. 'But I would never suspect this,' Ms Adams said. -- AP
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