(AP) Gautier police released a handwritten apology note and a recording Tuesday of the 911 call placed by suspected gunman Shannon Lamb before the fatal campus shooting of a Delta State University professor Tuesday.
In the call Monday morning, Lamb tells the dispatcher that police need to send officers over to his home. He says “I shot my wife last night” and also mentions that there is a “sweet dog” in the house that is “not going to bother anyone” but is likely upset.
Police asked the caller his name, but he doesn’t want to give it.
The 911 call was made about 45 minutes before Lamb is suspected of shooting Schmidt in his office. The shooting led to a campus lock down and manhunt.
After the shootings, Lamb called relatives and told them he was not going to jail.
Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said Tuesday that Lamb killed himself late Monday night about a mile south of his parents’ house on the northern outskirts of Greenville.
A .38-caliber pistol was recovered where Lamb died from a single gunshot to the head after he is suspected of killing Schmidt and Prentiss.
Johnson says Lamb died in the wooded back yard of a home where he knew the residents, after abandoning his still running car.
She says Lamb’s body is being taken to the state crime lab in Pearl for autopsy.
A .38-caliber handgun was also used in the fatal shooting of Lamb’s colleague Ethan Schmidt.
