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's defense is working to make a case for 'guilty except insane'. That would lock him in a psychiatric hospital instead of prison for killing Professor Meixner in 2022.

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.

Thomas Meixner, a professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences, was allegedly shot and killed by a former graduate student, Murad Dervish, while walking to class on October 5.

The father of a man accused of fatally shooting a professor at the University of Arizona on Wednesday said his son is “disturbed” and has a violent criminal history. Dolgun Dervish, 76, of ...

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.

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.

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.

Murad Dervish, 48, who had been expelled as a graduate student, is accused of fatally shooting Thomas Meixner, a professor who headed the University of Arizona's Department of Hydrology and ...