A retired professor at Auburn College was stabbed to loss of life over the weekend in a park close to the Alabama faculty campus, based on Auburn Police and the college. A person has been arrested and charged in her homicide.
“College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Emerita Julie Gard Schnuelle, DVM, Ph.D., was killed Saturday, Sept. 6, in Kiesel Park in Auburn, Alabama. The Auburn University community extends its sincere condolences to Dr. Gard Schnuelle’s family and loved ones for their tragic loss,” Auburn College mentioned in a press release. “She was a cherished educator, mentor and colleague whose dedication to students and passion for theriogenology and veterinary medicine left a lasting impact on Auburn.”
Julie Gard Schnuelle
Auburn College
Officers responded to a name at round 2 p.m. Saturday reporting a deceased particular person in a wooded part of the park, based on Auburn Police. At round 3:30 p.m., the police division shared a social media submit instructing individuals to keep away from Kiesel Park due to “a heavy first responder presence” within the space. It remained closed by the weekend as police launched an investigation into the assault.
Schnuelle had suffered accidents that indicated “the death was caused by an assault,” Auburn Police mentioned, and the county coroner informed WRBL that proof was in line with trauma sustained from a pointy object, doubtlessly a knife, based on the station. The coroner mentioned the physique would endure a full post-mortem examination, WRBL reported.
Auburn Police arrested Montgomery resident Harold Rashad Dabney, 28, in reference to the deadly stabbing on Sunday, the division mentioned. He was charged with two counts of capital homicide, together with one for kidnapping and one other for theft, as he allegedly stole Schnuelle’s Ford F-150 truck, which was parked within the space, to go away the scene after the assault, based on police.
Earlier than her retirement in 2021, Schnuelle was a professor within the scientific sciences division of the college’s Faculty of Veterinary Medication. Her biography on the varsity’s web site options a few of her analysis into stopping and managing ailments in cattle and their calves.
The college mentioned in its assertion that Schnuelle joined the school of its veterinary faculty in 2003, after graduating from the school herself in 1996. She had just lately labored on the U.S. Division of Agriculture as the realm veterinarian in cost for Alabama and Mississippi, based on the college.
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