UC Berkeley professor shot dead in Greece

A masked gunman fatally shot a UC Berkeley business professor while he visited his kids in Greece according to several media reports Przemys aw Przemek Jeziorski an associate marketing professor at the university s Haas School of Business reportedly died while visiting his children in Athens according to a Friday summary from Cal s trainee newspaper The Daily Californian A gunman reportedly shot the -year-old Polish professor five times on July at close range in the suburb of Agia Paraskevi near Athens the Polish news organization TVP World revealed on Tuesday Jeziorski reportedly died near his Greek ex-wife s house TVP communicated Jeziorski had two children and was locked in a custody battle with his ex-wife according to the Polish news site He held a Ph D in economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and master s degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Arizona He also held a bachelor s of arts in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics He also previously worked as an assistant professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University in and ukasz Jeziorski the professor s brother set up a WhyDonate site to field donations to pursue legal action in Greece Poland and the United States and to help repatriate his brother s remains to Poland The family has raised so far with a goal of Our family is heartbroken and we are doing everything we can to ensure that justice is served ukasz Jeziorski wrote on the site