University of Georgia Professor-George Zinkhan Sought In Shooting

University of Georgia Professor-George Zinkhan Sought In Shooting, that killed his wife and two other people at a community theater group’s reunion Saturday, April 25th, 2009. After the shooting, George Zinkhan dropped the couple’s two children off at a neighbor’s and fled.

Authorities say, they have local, regional and national alerts out for George Zinkhan, 57, an endowed marketing professor at the school’s Terry College of Business.

“It appeared he and his wife were having problems,” police Capt. Clarence Holeman said.

The dead are identified as:
Marie Bruce, 47, Zinkhan’s wife and a prominent Athens, Georgia attorney
Tom Tanner, 40,
Ben Teague, 63.

Friends identified Bruce as the president of the board of the Town and Gown Players, the theater group holding a reunion picnic on the theater’s deck when the shooting took place. Tanner and Teague were identified as set designers for the theater.

“Two more people were wounded by ricocheting bullets, but did not identify them. At least 20 people were in attendance at the event,” Holeman stated.

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