3 dead at Alabama university.

[KD5NRH]

This is interesting. Evidently she shot and killed her brother in 1986 but it was swept under the rug at the time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585 ... t=My+Yahoo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Somebody's been protecting this looney from the consequences of her actions for a long time.

By way of THR.us:

Statement from Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier on Amy Bishop
February 13, 2010 07:00 PM

Here is the text of Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier's statement on Amy Bishop's 1986 shooting of her brother, Seth:

Good afternoon,

The members of the Braintree Police Department extend their thoughts and prayers to the victims in the shooting incident which occurred at the University of Alabama, in Huntsville, Alabama as well as to their families and the members of the Huntsville Police Department who responded to and are investigating the incident.

I have been in contact with the Huntsville Police Department to confirm that the suspect in their shooting had been involved in a shooting incident in Braintree 24 years ago. Their investigators will be back in touch with us within a couple of days.

The suspect in the Huntsville shooting, Amy Bishop had been involved in a shooting incident in Braintree, Massachusetts in December of 1986. I located the Day Log from December of 1986 and found that the incident had occurred on December 6th. After finding the report number I looked in our archived files for the report. I was unable to locate the report.

Officer Ronald Solimini informed me that he wrote the report and said that I wouldn’t find it as it has been missing from the files for over 20 years. He said that former Police Chief Edward Flynn had looked for the report and that it was missing. He believes this was in 1988.

Officer Solimini recalled the incident as follows: He said he remembers that Ms. Bishop fired a round from a pump action shotgun into the wall of her bedroom. She had a fight with her brother and shot him, which caused his death. She fired a third round from the shotgun into the ceiling as she exited the home. She fled down the street with the shotgun in her hand. At one point she allegedly pointed the shotgun at a motor vehicle in an attempt to get the driver to stop. Officer Solimini found her behind a business on Washington Street. Officer Timothy Murphy was able to take control of the suspect at gunpoint and seized the shotgun. Ms. Bishop was subsequently handcuffed and transported to the police station under arrest.

Officer Solimini informed me that before the booking process was completed Ms. Bishop was released from custody without being charged.

I (Chief Frazier) spoke with the retired Deputy Chief who was then a Lieutenant and was responsible for booking Ms. Bishop. He said he had started the process when he received a phone call he believes was from then Police Chief John Polio or possibly from a captain on Chief Polio’s behalf. He was instructed to stop the booking process. At some point Ms. Bishop was turned over to her mother and they left the building via a rear exit.

Braintree Police Lieutenant Karen MacAleese was a high school classmate and confirmed from photographs that the suspect is the same Amy Bishop who lived in Braintree.

I was not on duty at the time of the incident, but I recall how frustrated the members of the department were over the release of Ms. Bishop. It was a difficult time for the department as there had been three (3) shooting incidents within a short timeframe. The release of Ms. Bishop did not sit well with the police officers and I can assure you that this would not happen in this day and age.

It is troubling that this incident has come to light. I can assure you that the members of the Braintree Police Department maintain the highest of integrity. Since it was discovered this morning that the report is missing, I have been in contact with Mayor Joseph Sullivan. Mayor Sullivan and I have spoken with District Attorney William Keating and we will be meeting with him next week to discuss this situation. The Mayor supports a full review of this matter and agrees that we want to know where the records are.

[marksiwel]

oh Braintree PD still doing a stellar job, I worked with a Vet who took care of their Drug/Attack dogs, the handlers kept getting bit by their own dogs, the PD didnt want to spend the cash to send them to training.

[chabouk]

The UAH website is suddenly devoid of all the policies referencing carry of firearms or weapons on campus. The google search still shows them, but they've gone 404.

Someone on another forum posted the policy from UAB, which I imagine is similar if not identical. It says that all students, faculty, and employees are prohibited from possessing any firearm or deadly weapon anywhere on campus.

Yeah, that's really working out.

[davidtx]

The UAH website is suddenly devoid of all the policies referencing carry of firearms or weapons on campus. The google search still shows them, but they've gone 404.

Someone on another forum posted the policy from UAB, which I imagine is similar if not identical. It says that all students, faculty, and employees are prohibited from possessing any firearm or deadly weapon anywhere on campus.

Yeah, that's really working out.

You may be able to find it at the WaybackMachine (http://www.archive.org/)

BTW - that site is a great example of why you want to be careful of what you say on the internet.

[cougartex]

Updated Story

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 16) -- An Alabama professor practiced at a shooting range not long before police say she gunned down three colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting, her husband said.

Amy Bishop's husband, James Anderson, said that his wife acted normally while they were at the range and that none of her behavior in recent days foreshadowed last Friday's rampage. Bishop, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, is accused of shooting six people at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Two survivors remained in critical condition Monday.

"She was just a normal professor," Anderson told The Associated Press during an interview at his home Monday. Meanwhile, a survivor of the shooting said Bishop methodically shot the victims in the head until her gun apparently jammed and she was pushed out of the room.

Associate professor Joseph Ng told the AP on Tuesday he was one of 12 people at the biology department meeting Friday at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He described the details in an e-mail to a colleague at the University of California, Irvine.

Ng said the meeting had been going on for about half an hour when Bishop "got up suddenly, took out a gun and started shooting at each one of us. She started with the one closest to her and went down the row shooting her targets in the head."

Bishop is charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder.

Killed were Gopi K. Podila, the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and professors Adriel Johnson and Maria Ragland Davis. Two were wounded -- professor Joseph Leahy remained in critical condition, and staffer Stephanie Monticciolo was in serious condition Tuesday. The third, Luis Cruz-Vera, was released from the hospital.

Ng said the meeting was held around an oval table. The six people on one side were all shot.

"The remaining five, including myself, were on the other side of the table [and] immediately dropped to the floor," he wrote.

Ng told the AP the shooting stopped almost as soon as it started. Ng said that the gun seemed to jam and that he and others rushed Bishop out of the room and then barricaded the door shut with a table.

Ng said the charge was led by Debra Moriarity, a professor of biochemistry, after Bishop aimed the gun at her and attempted to fire but it didn't shoot. He said Moriarity pushed her way to Bishop, urged her to stop, and then helped force her out the door.

"Moriarity was probably the one that saved our lives. She was the one that initiated the rush," Ng told the AP. "It took a lot of guts to just go up to her."

Ng said the survivors worried she would shoot her way through the door and frantically worked up backup plan in case she burst through. But she never did.

"There was a time when I didn't think I'd come out of the room alive," he said. "I don't think any of us thought we'd come out alive."

Anderson said his wife didn't reveal why she took an interest in guns. He knew she had a gun, but didn't know when or where she got the weapon. "I really don't know how she got it, or where she got it from," he said.

Police have said Bishop had no permit for the gun they believe she used in the campus shooting, and investigators said they didn't know where she got it. It's unclear if it was the same gun that her husband knew about.

Investigators haven't commented on a possible motive, but Bishop was vocal among colleagues about her displeasure over being denied tenure by the university, forcing her to look for work elsewhere after this semester.

Some victims' relatives have also questioned how Bishop was hired at the university in 2003 after she was involved years ago in separate criminal probes. University of Alabama officials were meeting privately to review the files concerning her hiring.

In 1986, Bishop shot and killed her 18-year-old brother with a shotgun at their Braintree, Mass., home. She told police at the time that she had been trying to learn how to use the gun, which her father had bought for protection, when it accidentally discharged.

Authorities released her and said the episode was a tragic accident. She was never charged, though current Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier questions how the investigation was handled. Frazier said she fired once into a wall before hitting her brother, then fired a third time into the ceiling.

Her husband said Monday he had known about her brother being shot, but said "it was an accident. That's all I knew about it."

In another incident, The Boston Globe reported that Bishop and her husband were questioned by investigators looking into a pipe bomb sent to one of Bishop's colleagues, Dr. Paul Rosenberg, at Children's Hospital Boston in 1993. The bomb did not go off, and no one was ever charged.

Anderson defended himself and his wife as innocent people questioned by investigators casting a wide net. He said the case "had a dozen people swept up in this, and everybody was a subject, not a suspect."

"There was never any indictment, arrest, nothing, and then everyone was cleared after five years," he said.

Huntsville police spokesman Sgt. Mark Roberts said his department didn't find out about either of the older cases until after the shooting on campus. He said police were checking to confirm details of the pipe bomb probe.

An expert on how employers screen prospective workers said that because Bishop wasn't charged with a crime before, the fatal shooting and pipe bomb cases would not have shown up on most background investigations.

"I don't see what the institution [University of Alabama, Huntsville] could have done," said University of Illinois law professor Matthew Finkin, who recently co-wrote a paper on the subject for the American Association of University Professors. He said there are more extensive and expensive types of background checks that might have turned up those incidents.

"But we normally don't do those for a reason and a respect for privacy. They are very invasive," Finkin said.

Associated Press Writers Greg Bluestein and Desiree Hunter in Huntsville, Bob Johnson in Montgomery and Stephen Singer in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

[joe817]

He said there are more extensive and expensive types of background checks that might have turned up those incidents.
"But we normally don't do those for a reason and a respect for privacy. They are very invasive," Finkin said.

Almost sounds like the type of background check a CHL holder has to go through, doesn't it?

[chabouk]

http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5557" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Quoting the Boston Herald:
"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children – the youngest a third-grade boy – was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."

[marksiwel]

http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5557

Quoting the Boston Herald:
"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children – the youngest a third-grade boy – was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."

Crazy comes in all Flavors

[casingpoint]

Amy Bishop is emerging as a psychotic individual, with a long history of the disease.

psychosis: : fundamental derangement of the mind characterized by defective or lost contact with reality especially as evidenced by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech and behavior
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