A popular UNC Charlotte Professor, Jeannine Skinner, 35, was found dead in an apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina on Friday. Police are looking for 45-year-old Donny Lewis Franklin in the murder. She was 35.

Born, Jeannine Shante Skinner, the professor was found dead in an apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina on Friday. Law enforcement is investigating the killing as possibly domestic related.

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According to the professor’s Linkedin page, she worked as a Research Instructor of Neurology at Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center.

The UNC Charlotte community is grieving in the aftermath of the finding out that the body of a well-liked professor, Jeannine Shante Skinner, was found Friday in southwest Charlotte. Police said Skinner’s body was found in an apartment near South Tryon Street around noontime. source

Skinner worked as a professor in UNC’s psychology department, according to the university website. Authorities went to the apartment to do a welfare check and made the grisly discovery.

Police said Franklin was last seen driving a maroon / burgundy Jeep with the license plate number 0512KN, according to police.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends at this difficult time.