Ex-wife of UC Berkeley professor, four others, arrested in his killing

Greek government charged the ex-wife of a UC Berkeley economics professor in an alleged scheme to gun him down as he walked to visit their twin children a media outlet in Greece shared this week Investigators also arrested at least four men among them the ex-wife s new companion related to the July fatal shooting of Przemyslaw Jeziorski a beloved professor who had taught at Cal since according to To Vima a Greek newspaper Together the agents say they conspired to carry out the killing in Athens Aghia Paraskevi district all allegedly at the behest of Jeziorski s ex-wife Jeziorski s ex-wife was identified by the San Francisco Chronicle as Nadia Michelidaki The killing happened around p m on July when a masked gunman approached the victim on foot and opened fire from close range according to CNN which cited local police Jeziorski was shot in the neck and chest and investigators discovered seven bullet casings the outlet released He died at the scene Functionaries in Greece advised To Vima that three men two Albanian nationals and a Bulgarian man drove Michelidaki s companion to the scene of the shooting and gave him the gun to carry it out The ex-wife s companion appears to have lived in Greece the weekly newspaper broadcasted At the time of the killing Jeziorski had been embroiled in a custody battle with Michelidaki according to the Polish news site TVP World The killing happened a day after Jeziorski attended a custody court hearing CNN announced At the time Jeziorski had been walking to his ex-wife s home to visit their two children according to To Vima Days after the killing Jeziorski scrambled to get enough money to bring his remains back to Poland where he was born and raised according to CNN Our family is heartbroken and we are doing everything we can to ensure that justice is served the professor s brother wrote in an online fundraising page the cable channel announced The family also sought to hire attorneys in Greece to pursue legal action and assistance ongoing investigations the outlet stated Jeziorski 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 Baltimore in and