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Police say a professor at the University of Louisiana Monroe was fatally shot by his father-in-law in a murder-suicide on Sunday night, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n

Mer Rouge Police Chief Melvin Holmes confirmed to KNOE that officers from his department and those from the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office were dispatched to a home Sunday night on a report of shots fired.<\/p>\n

Once there, they found the victim, Joshua Comer, 39, and the shooter, Jack Matthews, 68, dead from gunshot wounds. KNOE reports that Matthews, a local business owner, was Comer's father-in-law.<\/p>\n

Morehouse Parish Sheriff Mike Tubbs told KLFY that Comer and Matthews appeared to have a confrontation in the home before the shooting.<\/p>\n

According to the Hawkeye<\/em>, the university's student newspaper, Comer was an assistant professor of communication and the communication program director at the school.<\/p>\n

The school issued a statement on Twitter, saying, in part, "The ULM family is shocked and saddened by the loss of Dr. Joshua Comer."<\/p>\n

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"His enthusiasm, warmth and kindness will be greatly missed," the statement continued.<\/p>\n

The school is providing counseling services at no cost to students, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

According to his faculty page, Comer received a doctoral degree in 2015 in communication and rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n

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