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 ...

He could face life in prison. Meixner, 52, headed the university’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. Dervish was in the master’s degree program in atmospheric sciences.

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.

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 ...

February 22, 2021 01:21 CET Updated February 22, 2021 12:30 CET ...

It doesn’t work. Dervish says, “It’s a shame we can’t talk, we seem to have a lot in common, going to U of A, living in San Diego., of course I can’t speak with you without a lawyer.” ...

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 ...