NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a shocking incident of gratuitous violence, a professor at the University of West Georgia has been charged with murder after he shot and killed an 18-year-old girl who was about to begin her studies at his college in the fall, according to police.
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Richard Sigman, a business lecturer at the University of West Georgia, allegedly got into an argument with a man at Leopold’s pizza restaurant in Carrollton late Friday night and threatened to shoot him. Noticing that Sigman was armed, the man alerted security guards, who asked Sigman to leave the premises. Sigman stormed out and fired multiple shots into a car in the parking lot, where high school graduate Anna Jones was sitting. Jones, an apparent innocent bystander, was mortally wounded by one of the bullets.
She was rushed to hospital by friends but pronounced dead on arrival.
Anna Jones, murdered by professor after pizza restaurant argument
Police have yet to understand why Sigman chose to shoot into the parked vehicle but he has been arrested and charged with murder, aggravated assault in connection and illegal possession of a firearm.
Jones, who had graduated from local Mount Zion high school just weeks before her tragic death, had enrolled as an incoming freshman at the University of West Georgia.
Sigman had his contract terminated immediately by the university in the wake of the shooting, which occurred just a mile and a half from college grounds.
It is still unclear whether Sigman had opened fire in a deliberate attack on Jones or whether she was simply caught in crossfire when Sigman began firing wildly. It is not yet known if Sigman has a lawyer representing him.
The university confirmed Saturday that Jones was a student at the university poised to begin classes later this month.
‘On behalf of the university, we wish to convey our deepest condolences to Anna´s family and many friends,’ University of West Georgia President Dr. Brendan Kelly said in a statement to social media.
‘We know this news is difficult to process and affects many members of our university community,’ it went on.
‘We ask that you keep Anna’s family, friends, and all who have been touched by this tragedy in your thoughts during this tremendously difficult time.’
Jones was rememberred by friends as ‘a beautiful, sweet soul whose smile would light up a room’.
The girl’s mourning parents wrote: ‘As with most parents, you never think that you will need life insurance for your child.
‘This was a devastating and senseless crime that left a lot of hearts broken, a community mourning, and a family grieving.’
Georgia Senate Majority Leader Mike Dugan, whose legislative district includes Carroll County where the incident took place, said that : ‘A senseless act of violence resulted in the death of Anna Jones, a Mt. Zion graduate who was attending the University of West Georgia this fall.
‘I’m holding her friends and family in my thoughts and prayers — I’d ask for everyone to do the same.’
Yet another member of “a well regulated militia”… only 40,000 gun murders in the US last year. Feh
Enough is enough Guns actually enable people to kill very easily an should not be that accessible.
So guns don’t lead to more peace, they cause more death & destruction. Unless you spend an hour a day learning mussar, a gun in your hands can wreak havoc & ruin society. Eisav surely doesn’t do well with a loaded gun.
Richard Sigman,a good guy with a gun until he wasn’t.
He looks like Gorbachev
A simple argument against the NRA.
All common sense stops making sense with with insensible people.
“if everyone is armed, no one will shoot out of fear”, until someone does shoot, then what?
a person might be a great professor but it does not guarantee him to be a mentch. He is proof….
All the comments here are stupid nonsense. How many times in the past 50 years has a professor with a gun started randomly shooting and killing someone? There is always a price to pay for useful items that have a danger potential. If we banned private ownership of cars, we could save 50,000 lives a year. If we got rid of air travel, we could save many lives. If we banned power tools, we could save many lives. But this is all nonsense; a free society has deemed that the price is worth it. Guns in the hands of responsible people protect and deter crime, once in a blue moon you have a person who was presumed to be responsible go crazy, but it is extremely rare.
Furthermore, the article gives off a smell that some major factor is missing from the story.
This is entirely sleepy joe’s fault since he caused both Georgia Senators in that January runoff to be democRATS
wow secular education and educators are great! i can’t wait till the BOE takes over our yeshivos!
It’s a good thing the good guys have guns.. BAN ALL GUNS NOW! We need an amendment to the constitution and join the rest of the civilized world.