Daniel Jones held on $3 million bail after Thursday court appearance

Oberlin College was shaken on Friday after an award-winning professor of photography who had worked at the Ohio liberal arts college for nearly 30 years was found shot and killed on Wednesday, officials said.

The professor’s son, Daniel Jones, 31, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the deadly shooting. Officers searched his father and stepmother’s home for a wellness check after the arrest, the authorities said. After a forced entry, they found Pipo Nguyen-Duy, 64, and his wife, Tran Thi Phong, 56, shot to death.

Jones was charged with six counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence, the authorities said. He was being held on $3 million bail after an initial court appearance on Thursday. He did not enter a plea.

Nguyen-Duy was the studio art chair at Oberlin College, in north Ohio close to Lake Erie.

Officials said they were investigating a motive for the killing.

The sequence described by police began that morning, when Oberlin officers responded to a car fire in a parking lot. Investigators found a Toyota hatchback with Oregon license plates registered to Jones, the authorities said.

Inside the car, investigators discovered Jones’s wallet and passport along with ammunition, police said. Officers found Jones about a mile away more than an hour later, after a resident called to report a “wet, disheveled man” at her front door, according to police. The authorities took him into custody without incident.

Officials said Jones had cuts to his face and injuries to his hand and arm at the time of the arrest.

Oberlin police have been in contact with Jones’s mother in Oregon, ABC News reported. Her name was not released, but Oberlin police said she told officials that Jones had a mental illness and required medication.

His lawyer, Jenifer Berki Merrill, said he preferred to go by his birth name, Asia Nguyen-Duy.

Nguyen-Duy migrated to the United States from Vietnam in 1975 as a political refugee. He was considered highly respected at Oberlin College, had been honored for his photography and had been named a Guggenheim fellow.

At the college, he served as studio art chair. Oberlin College sits in north Ohio, close to Lake Erie.