A former University of Arizona graduate student has been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a professor on campus two years ago
A former University of Arizona graduate student was convicted Tuesday of fatally shooting a professor on campus in 2022 after his expulsion. Murad Dervish, 48, was convicted by a Pima County Superior Court that began deliberating in the morning. Dervish was being tried on seven felony charges including first-degree murder in the October 2022 death of 52-year-old Thomas Meixner, who authorities said was shot 11 times near his office and pronounced dead at a Tucson hospital.
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. “He had severe mental health issues. He did not know right from wrong.” But Pima County prosecutor Mark Hotchkiss said evidence showed Dervish planned Meixner’s killing and bought the murder weapon — a 9 mm handgun — a month before the shooting. “He is not guilty but insane.
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