Oberlin Professor, Woman Found Slain; Suspect Arrested

Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Pip Nguyen-Duy, a professor at Oberlin College, and a 47-year-old woman were discovered deceased in an off-campus residence on Wednesday morning. Both victims sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Police have arrested 31-year-old Daniel Jones of Ashland, Oregon, in connection with the double homicide. Officers located Jones after responding to a vehicle fire on the college campus. He was taken into custody without incident. The relationship between Jones and the victims has not been disclosed, and the motive for the shootings is currently under investigation.

Nguyen-Duy, 64, had been a beloved professor of studio and photography at Oberlin since 1998. College President Carmen Twillie Ambar expressed profound sadness over the loss of Nguyen-Duy, who immigrated from Vietnam in 1975 and became an internationally recognized artist. The college had issued a shelter-in-place order at the request of police during the initial investigation.