Photos: Manhunt in Athens for UGA professor

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Photos: Manhunt in Athens for UGA professor

Photos from Athens, where a manhunt is one for a UGA professor suspected in a fatal shooting.

This is the latest image released by authorities of fugitive George Zinkhan.

This is one of the tools being used in the search for Zinkhan. The Outdoor Advertising Association of Georgia has posted this image on more than 200 billboards throughout Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.

University of Georgia police officers B. Peacock (left) and N. Bailey patrol the quad of the UGA campus Monday with an AR-15 rifle. Police stepped up their presence as authorities from Georgia to Texas continued to search for a UGA professor suspected of three killings.

This portrait shows UGA professor George Zinkhan III and wife Marie Bruce in 2005.

UGA junior Daniel Burchett relaxes on the quad with his cellphone as armed police officers patrol behind him.

As police continued to search for UGA professor George Zinkhan, outside the Athens Community Theatre passers-by comforted each other at the scene of a triple murder that took place Saturday.

Phin Tillman in front of the Athens Community Theatre where the shootings took place.

Rick Rose (from left), Lyla Ralston and Florence King pay their respects at the theater.

LaBau Bryan, a member of the theater, stopped by on her way to church and wrote out a card, which she left at the memorial created by well-wishers

Marie E. Bruce, pictured here in the 2004 production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, was one of three victims shot and killed on Saturday at the Athens Community Theater. Bruce was married to the alleged shooter and UGA professor, George M. Zinkhan III.

Tom Tanner, second from left, seen here with friends from the Town and Gown Players theater company. The 40-year-old was shot and killed on Saturday. All three victims were shot multiple times, but Tanner received the most wounds.

Ben Teague, pictured with Beth Kosinsky at a Henry V cast party, was a victim in Saturday's shootings. Teague was married to a UGA English professor, and he had a passion for reading and theater.

Police are searching for George Zinkhan, a Terry College of Business in the department of marketing and distribution at the University of Georgia.

At his news conference, UGA President Michael Adams said, "This is clearly the kind of occurrence we don't expect in a location like this."

Brantley Settle, a friend of one of victims, Ben Teague, leaves a flower at at the Athens Community Theater Sunday morning. Police and witnesses say UGA professor George M. Zinkhan opened fire outside the theater, killing three and injuring at least three others on Saturday.

Post forensics specialist Gordy Powell cleans the crime scene outside the theater, where the triple murder took place Saturday.

Friends and neighbors stop by the Athens Community Theater. A memorial of flowers, cards, candles and teddy bears was taking shape as well wishers came on Sunday.

An unidentified man drops off a flower outside the Athens Community Theatre, where the triple murder took place yesterday.

Friends left flowers and letters at the Athens Community Theater on Sunday.

A manhunt is on in Athens for a University of Georgia professor accused of shooting and killing three people.

Friends left flowers and letters at the theater where the shooting happened.

The shooting occurred at Athens Community Theater off Prince Avenue near downtown.

Athens-Clarke County Police check the home of Zinkhan.

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This is the latest image released by authorities of fugitive George Zinkhan.

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