3 dead, 3 hurt in Ga. shooting; professor sought

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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police say three people have been killed and three others have been injured at a shooting at a community theater near the University of Georgia.

Authorities were searching Saturday for a professor in the shooting deaths.

Athens-Clarke County Police Major Mike Shockley says authorities were called to the theater about 12:30 p.m. and found three adults slain by gunfire. He says three others were injured, "possibly by ricocheting bullets."

He declined to release the identities of the victims.

Shockley says police are looking for 56-year-old George Zinkhan, a marketing professor at the school in Athens, which is about 70 miles east of Atlanta.

He says authorities do not know what triggered the shootings.