Greek police proceed to seek for gunman who killed UC Berkeley professor in broad daylight on July 4

By Elinda Labropoulou and Lauren Kent, CNN

Athens — Police in Greece are looking for the killer of a College of California Berkeley professor who was shot lifeless on July 4 whereas visiting Athens to see his youngsters and attend a household custody listening to.

Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, an economist and professor of promoting at UC Berkeley’s Haas College of Enterprise, was shot a number of instances at shut vary in a residential suburb of Athens and died on the scene, in accordance with police.

A masked gunman “approached the victim on foot and opened fire from close range” at about 4:15 p.m., hitting the sufferer within the neck and chest, in accordance with police spokesperson Konstantina Dimoglidou. Seven bullet casings from a 9mm caliber firearm have been discovered on the scene, police stated.

A homicide investigation is underway. With the suspect nonetheless at massive greater than per week later, his household and associates are demanding police intensify their efforts.

The capturing occurred close to the house of Jeziorski’s ex-wife within the suburb of Agia Paraskevi, in the future after the father-of-two attended a custody court docket listening to, police stated.

CNN has reached out to Jeziorski’s ex-wife for remark.

A senior police supply, talking on situation of anonymity as they weren’t approved to debate the case publicly, instructed CNN that “all scenarios are being examined including close family members,” however didn’t elaborate additional.

The police supply stated the homicide “bore signs of a contract killing,” so hyperlinks to organized crime are additionally being investigated.

Police stated Jeziorski had no felony report in Greece.

Eyewitnesses described seeing a masked man in black who approached the sufferer on foot, with one telling native media that she heard about six pictures and noticed the perpetrator run from the scene.

“There was no silencer on the gun, it was very loud. It was like an explosion,” one other eyewitness who noticed the assault instructed CNN affiliate CNN Greece.

‘Our family is heartbroken’

Jeziorski’s household is elevating cash to repatriate his stays to his native Poland, and to pay for authorized illustration in Greece “to pursue legal action and support ongoing investigations.”

“Our family is heartbroken, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that justice is served,” his brother Łukasz Jeziorski wrote on the net fundraising web page.

UC Berkeley stated in a press release that Jeziorski “had a passion for teaching” and through his 13 years there taught information analytics abilities to greater than 1,500 graduate and PhD college students. He was described by associates and coworkers as “an amazing person, friend, and colleague” in addition to “exceptionally gifted and hard-working.”

The extremely acclaimed economist created a preferred MBA advertising analytics course and “became a leading expert in quantitative marketing, industrial organization, and the economics of digital markets,” in accordance with Berkeley.

His analysis on subsistence-level entrepreneurs and monetary inclusion and coaching took him all over the world, with one colleague describing him as “truly adventurous.”

“He was a loving father of two young children and always there if someone needed help,” Berkeley Professor Zsolt Katona stated within the assertion. “He had great influence on the marketing field not only through his research but through his energetic presence and optimism combined with a healthy dose of skepticism.”

Earlier than becoming a member of the employees at Berkeley, Jeziorski labored as an assistant professor of economics at Johns Hopkins College and a visiting scholar at Microsoft. He obtained his PhD in financial evaluation from Stanford and earned grasp’s levels from the College of Arizona and the Warsaw College of Economics in Poland.

Jeziorski had been revealed in a number of top-tier educational journals, together with the American Financial Journal and the RAND Journal of Economics. He was additionally the co-founder of a start-up referred to as Keybee, a short-term rental property administration platform.