An accomplished photography professor at Oberlin College in Ohio and his wife were found shot to death at their home Wednesday, according to authorities, who said the professor’s son had been arrested and charged with murder.

The shootings jolted the Oberlin campus, which is about 35 miles southwest of Cleveland, and visual artists who had known him.

The professor, Pipo Nguyen-duy, 64, who had taught at the college since 1998 and was its studio art chair, and his wife, Tran Thi Phong, 56, were identified by the Oberlin Police Department as the victims.

Daniel Jones, 31, of Ashland, Ore., who police said was Nguyen-duy’s son and Phong’s stepson, was charged with six counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence, authorities said.

A motive was not immediately clear.

In a statement, Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin’s president, described Nguyen-duy, who was known as Pipo, as a beloved member of the college community whose passion for photography touched…