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UNLV gunman resigned as tenured professor after making sexual comment in class, former student says

www.nbcnews.com UNLV gunman resigned as tenured professor after making sexual comment in class, former student says

He blamed East Carolina University for costing him his career and destroying his reputation, his previously posted online ramblings show.

UNLV gunman resigned as tenured professor after making sexual comment in class, former student says

He blamed East Carolina University for costing him his career and destroying his reputation, his previously posted online ramblings show.

The man who fatally shot three people last week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had resigned from another school, despite having tenure, after a female student accused him of making a sexual comment about her appearance.

Kristin Marshburn said she was sitting in the front row of Anthony Polito's business course at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, in 2016 when he walked in and made the remark.

"He said to me that if I wore a shirt that low cut for the rest of the semester, I’d be sure to get an A," Marshburn, now 28, told NBC News.

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