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 ...

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.

PHOENIX − A former University of Arizona graduate student was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of a professor on campus in 2022. Murad Dervish, 48 ...

After the shooting, Dervish fled the building, police said. Three hours later, the police found Dervish driving on Highway 85 toward Mexico 30 miles south of Gila Bend, according to the complaint.

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, faces seven felony charges including first degree murder in the death of Thomas Meixner, 52, who was shot nine times near his office and was pronounced dead at a Tucson hospital.

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.