He said jurors should hold Dervish accountable but urged them to consider a lesser charge of second-degree murder that could have meant confinement in a psychiatric hospital, rather than a prison ...

Authorities in Arizona said Wednesday the younger Dervish fatally shot Thomas Meixner, the head of the department of hydrology and atmospheric sciences, at the Tucson campus before he was arrested ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Murad Dervish, the ex-student charged with shooting and killing University of Arizona Professor Dr. Thomas Meixner told police he acted because he felt disrespected in the ...

Prosecutors said a grand jury also charged Murad Dervish, 46, with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited possessor, endangerment and burglary.

The man charged with murdering University of Arizona Professor Thomas Meixner is fighting with his attorney in court. Murad Dervish even raised the idea of becoming his own lawyer.

That would confine Dervish to a psychiatric hospital instead of a prison cell if he was convicted. "Murad Dervish lost his mind on Oct. 5, 2022," Masursky said in his closing argument.

Murad Dervish, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder after he shot Thomas Meixner, the head of the university's Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, on Oct. 5, 2022.

Murad Dervish, the former University of Arizona grad student accused of killing Professor Thomas Meixner made a chilling confession after police walked out of the interrogation room.

In addition to the trial date, Dervish’s pre-trial conference was also moved to next year, where it will be the setting for the defense’s re-urging of their previously filed motion to have the ...

Before attending the University of Arizona, Murad Dervish was a student and teacher's assistant at San Diego State University, where he also harassed and threatened professors and students via email.

On Oct. 5 Murad Dervish, a graduate student at the University of Arizona, walked into a professor’s office and shot to death the professor after making numerous antisemitic threats against his life.