The Murder of a Professor

A failed graduate student kills the scholar who gave him a second chance at a Ph.D.

Students at the University of Arkansas here were gathering in Kimpel Hall for John R. Locke's first comparative-literature course of the semester a little after noon on Monday, August 28, when four gunshots rang out from inside Mr. Locke's office downstairs in Room 231.

The professor never made it to class. His heart was pierced by a .38-caliber bullet fired by a graduate student who pumped a

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