Photo courtesy of Twitter @samhayes21

Wabash College employee Lucius Hamilton III, suspected of killing his niece and her 4-year-old son, was reportedly found dead Wednesday afternoon of self-inflicted gunshot wounds in a fourth-floor room of the Hilton Downtown Hotel in Indianapolis. Police believe he shot himself in the head around 3 p.m. 

Police say that Hamilton, 61, shot 31-year-old Katherine Giehll and her son Raymond Peter Giehll IV dead on Wednesday morning in a home in the 6800 block of Old Hunt Club Road in Zionsville, Ind. Police were reportedly called to the scene around 8:50 a.m. after the bodies were found by a neighbor.

The Boone County Sheriff's Office released a statement saying that the suspect's motive was "strictly for financial gain, from a family trust." Details of the trust are being investigated, according to the statement.

Hamilton served as an alumni career officer and a major gifts officer for Wabash College, located in Crawfordsville, Ind. He was also a 1976 graduate of the college. Wabash cancelled classes for the rest of the day on Wednesday and instructed students to stay indoors as police officers searched campus for the suspect. The lockdown was lifted shortly before 2:30 p.m. Students are now free to roam about campus.

Wabash student, junior Austin Davis, told The DePauw that Hamilton had checked out a van from Wabash's campus on Wednesday morning, where he was last seen around 9:30 a.m. 

Later in the day, a professor was tackled by police mistakenly. Police later apologized, the man said.

Wabash College students took to tweeting about the situation in the midst of the chaos.

Tons of police officers swarming campus with assault weapons for reasons unknown #Wabash pic.twitter.com/lbOxo4WK2z

— Sam Hayes (@samhayes21) February 17, 2016

This article will be updated as more details become available.

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