Jamie Donnelly UA Professor Thomas Meixner attempted to lock himself in an office after being shot, but the gunman forced the door open and fired at him several more times, according to a witness who was in the room when the fatal shooting took place on Oct. 5.
On Oct. 5, a UA employee who worked in the Harshbarger Building, which houses the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, had sought out Meixner, the department head, to talk to him about a report, police records say. He saw Meixner was speaking with two students after teaching his class and walked down the hallway to wait in the main office since he didn’t want to interrupt.
The employee noticed that Meixner had blood on his shirt and was having problems securing the door, possibly due to another door stop that was preventing it from being shut. Dervish was able to overpower Meixner and enter the room, holding a black automatic handgun and pointing it at Meixner's upper torso, the witness told police.
While under her desk, she saw Meixner laying on the ground and attempted to keep him alive while a coworker called the police, police records say. The coworker told police that just moments before she had heard three gunshots, looked up from her desk and saw Meixner walking through the door, yelling “, I knew you were going to do this.”
This student told police that she had left the school in February and worked remotely because she was so scared of Dervish, police records say. A UA official who oversaw his expulsion appeal decided to work from home for two days due to his threatening emails, according to police reports previously released.
He told officers he was going to shoot himself in the head after, but could not bring himself to do it, police records say. He also said he had been to prison twice and attended rehab for alcohol and took a class about alternatives to violence while there.
Yep unfortunately U of Arizona PD did not listen to the people who saw something and said something.