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Gunman Who Sparked UGA Campus Alert Found Dead

Posted: 3:34 pm EST November 5, 2009Updated: 5:19 pm EST November 5, 2009

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman's body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.

The shooting Thursday afternoon prompted an alert at the campus telling students and staff to avoid the university's golf course, where the shooter had been spotted.

Police spokesman Savannah Hembree said Michael Wise, 25, was found dead about 10 miles from campus in neighboring Oglethorpe county from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police said Wise killed himself as they tried to pull over his car and that there was a passenger inside the car.

Wise shot and killed Kendra Borders, 20, in the parking lot of the Shops of South Athens on S. Milledge Avenue, according to Hembree.

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