Uc Berkeley Professor Gunned Down By Masked Attacker In Greece

A University of California, Berkeley professor was changeable and killed by a masked gunman while visiting family successful Athens, Greece, reports said.

The decease of Przemysław Jeziorski, a 43-year-old subordinate professor of trading astatine UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, unfolded connected July 4. He was changeable 5 times astatine adjacent scope successful an Athens suburb, suffering injuries to his thorax and neck, according to Polish news website TVP World, citing media reports. 

The Greek news website Ta Nea said that astatine nan clip of his death, Jeziorski was heading to prime up his children from his Greek ex-wife, who lives successful nan area. The outlet added that he traveled to nan state to be a tribunal proceeding regarding their custody. 

"I americium heartbroken by nan tragic and abrupt decease of Professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a beloved personnel of our trading module and Haas community," Jennifer Chatman, nan dean of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, told The Daily Californian student newspaper. While authorities are investigating what happened, our contiguous attraction is connected supporting our organization during this difficult period. My bosom goes retired to Przemek’s family and loved ones. We will miss him." 

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Przemysław Jeziorski, a 43-year-old subordinate professor of trading astatine UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, was killed successful Greece connected July 4, reports said. (UC Berkeley)

"Przemek was an outstanding scholar. His investigation astatine nan intersection of trading and economics led nan measurement successful important areas from mergers and acquisitions to hunt advertizing and mobile money," Haas professor Zsolt Katona besides said to nan newspaper.  

A curriculum vitae of Jeziorski connected UC Berkeley’s website said, "With complete 15 years of acquisition successful investigation and teaching, he has earned a estimation arsenic a starring master successful quantitative marketing, business organization, and applied microeconomics." 

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A wide position of nan University of California Berkeley field successful Berkeley, California.  The Haas School of Business is visible successful nan foreground. (David Madison/Getty Images)

Jeziorski’s resume besides said he taught astatine Johns Hopkins University and nan University of Arizona. 

Łukasz Jeziorski, who identified himself arsenic Jeziorski’s brother, wrote connected a European crowdfunding website that he was "the unfortunate of a unspeakable crime, and nan perpetrator is still astatine large."

The destruction of Haas School of Business connected nan field of UC Berkeley successful downtown Berkeley, Calif., connected May 21, 2018.  (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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"Our family is heartbroken, and we are doing everything we tin to guarantee that justness is served," he added. "We are asking for your thief to raise costs for ineligible fees, nan repatriation of Przemek’s remains to Poland, and related expenses. Przemek was a loving begetter to 2 young children and a beloved professor astatine nan Haas School of Business astatine UC Berkeley."