Jeannine Skinner: UNC Charlotte Professor Found Dead In Apartment; Man Wanted For Murder

Jeannine Shante Skinner, 35, a professor at UNC Charlotte, 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.

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.

Skinner, 35, worked as an assistant professor in UNCC ’s psychology department, according to the university website. Authorities went to the apartment to do a welfare check and made the grisly discovery.

Police are looking for Donny Lewis Franklin, 45, so that they can charge him with murder. Law enforcement is investigating the killing as possibly domestic related.

Police said Franklin, 45, was last seen driving a maroon / burgundy Jeep with the license plate number 0512KN, according to police.