Athens, Greece
CNN
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Greek police have arrested five people for the murder of UC Berkeley Professor Plzemisro Jeziorsky, including his ex-wife and her current partner.
The arrest warrant was issued after five people were brought in for questioning.
Jeziorski was shot dead when he visited Athens on July 4th, met his children and attended a family custody hearing.
According to Greek national broadcaster ERT, the five are expected to testify in front of prosecutors on Thursday morning.
According to the ERT, the arrests reported that two Greek nationals, along with two Albanians and one Bulgarian, the victim’s ex-wife, a 43-year-old and his current partner, 35-year-old.
CNN reached out to her ex-wife’s lawyer but did not receive any comments.
Jeziorski, 43, an economist and marketing professor at Haas School of Business in Berkeley, California, was shot multiple times in close range in a residential suburb of Athens and died at the scene, police said.
According to police spokesman Konstantina Dimoglidou, a masked gunman struck the victim on his neck and chest, saying, “he approached the victim on foot and opened the shooting from close range.” Seven bullet casings from a 9mm caliber firearm were found at the scene, police said.
The witnesses saw the masked black man approaching the victim on foot and told local media that they heard six shots and saw the assailant running from the scene.
The shooting took place near the home of Jeziorsky’s ex-wife on the outskirts of Agia Paraskevi, the day after the two fathers attended a custody court hearing, police said.
CNN contacted Jeziorsky’s ex-wife for comment.
Senior police sources previously told CNN “all scenarios are being considered involving close families,” as they were not allowed to publicly discuss the case on condition of anonymity, and that the murders “have signs of contract murder.”
Police said Zeziorsky had no criminal history in Greece.
Jeziorski’s family repatriated his body to his hometown of Poland and began a fundraiser to pay for legal representatives in Greece.
“Our family is heartbroken and we are doing everything we can to ensure that justice is provided,” his brother, Jeziorsky, wrote on his online fundraising page.
In a statement, UC Berkeley said that Zeziorsky was “passionate about education,” and for 13 years he taught data analytics skills to more than 1,500 alumni and doctoral students.
Jenny Chatman, dean of the University of California Berkeley Business School, said he was “grief” with the death of Jeziorsky, who described him as a “loving member of the Faculty of Marketing.”
This story has been updated with additional developments.
