The report states employees repeatedly plead for help and action from university leadership, police, and safety teams - but their requests were either ignored or not acted upon appropriately.
Police say Professor Thomas Meixner was shot and killed by a former grad student, Murad Dervish, on October 5, 2022.
The outside expert concluded that"shocking and disturbing, [but] not unforeseeable.""As this report reveals, there were systemic issues at this university. I'm angry I didn't do more to prevent this tragedy," said President Robbins. "The University of Arizona had a chance to save Tom and it did not act," said Larry Wulkan, one of the attorneys representing Professor Meixner's widow and two sons."Tom was shot in front of witnesses. His last words to his murderer, 'I knew you were going to do this,'" said Wulkan, citing witness statements."I've never seen a case where a defendant knew that a murder was going to happen and didn't do anything to try to prevent it.
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