Northwestern Professor, Oxford Employee Wanted For Chicago Murder
By Patrick SmithNorthwestern Professor, Oxford Employee Wanted For Chicago Murder
By Patrick Smith
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A professor at Northwestern University and an employee of England’s Oxford University are wanted for first-degree murder in Chicago. Arrest warrants were issued Monday for Northwestern Medical School Professor Wyndham Lathem and Oxford’s Andy Warren.
The two are charged with stabbing a 26-year-old man to death on the 10th floor of a luxury apartment building on State Street, just a few blocks north of the river.
The 42-year-old Lathem has been a faculty member in Northwestern’s microbiology-immunology department for 10 years.
In a statement, a school spokesman says he has been placed on administrative leave and banned from entering the Northwestern University campuses