Shooting at Univ of Alabama-Huntsville

[debk]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. —  A woman opened fire during a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus Friday, killing three faculty members and injuring two other faculty members and a staff member.

The shooter was in custody, but university spokesman Ray Garner said he could not identify her or the victims. Local television stations reported she is a faculty member.

No students were hurt.

Huntsville Hospital spokesman Burr Ingram said two of the injured were in critical condition and the third was in stable condition.

Sophomore Erin Johnson told The Huntsville Times a biology faculty meeting was under way when she heard screams coming from the room.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585682,00.html


Just came on Fox....

at least 3 dead. Hospitals have been told there are 10 victims coming into ER.

[debk]

this is on Fox's website....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585682,00.html

[Odin's Hand]

Female staff member is what I heard.

[jinxmchue]

Female staff member is what I heard.

Ban females.

[Airwolf]

Prayers to the families of the victims.

[JohnnyReb]

If this doesn't leave you asking "What's her DU name?", nothing will.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_ala_university_shooting

[bijou]

Ace has a bunch of links on the story here: http://minx.cc/?post=298251

[Tucker]

Looks a little like PD.

[bijou]

BRAINTREE -- The University of Alabama biology professor accused of slaying three of her colleagues fatally shot her brother in Massachusetts more than two decades ago, a local police chief said today, while at the same time raising troubling questions about how the long-ago incident was handled.

The Boston Globe reported at the time that Amy Bishop had accidentally shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, an accomplished violinist who had won a number of science awards, in Braintree.

Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier confirmed today at a news conference that Amy Bishop had fatally shot her brother. But Frazier offered a different account of the shooting, saying Bishop had shot her brother during an argument and was being booked by police when the police chief at the time ordered the booking process stopped and Bishop released to her mother.

Frazier said he was basing his statements on the memories of one of his officers who was on the department at the time and had arrested Bishop. He said the records from the case have been missing since at least 1988.

"I don't want to use the word 'coverup' ... but this does not look good," he said. ...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/professor_accus.html?camp=localsearch:on:twit:hp

[SVPete]

"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice.

[bijou]

"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice.

It  does make you wonder who she was connected to.

[Airwolf]

It  does make you wonder who she was connected to.

Well the list is probably short and ugly but the top contenders would be the Kennedys or the Kerrys .

[bijou]

Oh look ...

Former Braintree police chief John Polio is nearly 90 now. His response to the current chief’s statement was unequivocal: “There was no coverup.” Polio went on to say that the office of former DA William Delahunt looked into the case and decided not to file charges. Delahunt is now a congressman. He has yet to respond to Chief Frazier’s statements about a possible coverup.

http://mediaelites.com/?p=13006

[bijou]

Well the list is probably short and ugly but the top contenders would be the Kennedys or the Kerrys .

Spot on, how about both via Delahunt?

April 06, 2009
Delahunt, Kennedy and Political Favors

In today's Providence Journal, investigative columnist Jeff Blanchard reports that Ted Kennedy's family has been granted the special privilege of steering the committee to choose the region's next U. S.attorney in Boston, a very powerful position.

High on the Kennedy list -- a Delahunt clan member.

JEFF BLANCHARD

BREWSTER

WHAT DO THESE four have in common?

Michael Mone (who represented Michael Kennedy when the 39-year-old son of RFK was accused of improper behavior with the family baby-sitter. Kennedy later died in a skiing accident).

Tracy Miner (who represented John Connolly when the former FBI agent was accused of working with the Whitey Bulger side of the Boston mob at the height of its murderous reign. Connolly is in prison).

Kathy Weinman (who is married to Cameron Kerry, political strategist for and brother of Sen. John Kerry, as well as President Obama’s pick to be general counsel to the Commerce Department).

Robert Toone (who was counsel for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee before joining the Boston law firm of Foley Hoag as a specialist for the client Pfizer). ... Michael Mone litigated the success of Congressman William Delahunt in his cliff-hanging-chad primary-election victory over Philip Johnston in 1996.  ...

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Holy ****!

 

Socialist Professor Amy Bishop Who Killed 3 Profs Yesterday Shot & Killed Her Brother in 1986 …UPDATE: Dem Rep. Delahunt Made Call to Release Bishop in 1986!
Saturday, February 13, 2010, 4:30 PM
Jim Hoft

Amy Bishop shot and killed Gopi K. Podila, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson, all professors in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus, yesterday after a meeting on tenure.

AL.com is now reporting that this socialist professor also shot and killed her 18 year-old brother during an argument in 1986.

    A Massachusetts police chief is now saying that UAH shooting suspect Amy Bishop shot and killed her brother during an argument, and the case may have been mishandled by the police department more than two decades ago when the fatal shooting occurred.

    The Boston Globe reported that Amy Bishop, a biology professor at UAH who is accused of shooting and killing three colleagues yesterday, accidentally shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, in the abdomen with a 12-gauge shotgun in December 1986.

    The report said Bishop was asking her mother, Judith, how to properly unload the gun when it when off and a shot struck Seth.

    Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier is now offering a different account of the shooting to The Globe: “Bishop had shot her brother during an argument and was being booked by police when the police chief at the time ordered the booking process stopped and Bishop released to her mother,” the paper reports on its Web site. Records from the case have been missing since 1987.

Bishop shot at her brother 3 times.

UPDATE: Police released Bishop in 1986 after they received a call from district attorner William Delahunt, now Rep. Delahunt.
The Boston Channel reported:

    Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt.

    Delahunt is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts.

    When contacted Saturday, Polio, now 86, said that there was no cover up in Seth Bishop’s death, though there were questions about whether the shooting was an accident.

Hat Tip Mrs. Davis

More… Bishop’s mother was in politics on the town Board of Personnel in 1986 at the time of the shooting.

Still More… It’s not the first time Rep. Delahunt has been linked to a murder.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/02/killer-socialist-professor-amy-bishop-shot-killed-her-brother-in-1986/

[bijou]

The original police reports are here: http://www.necn.com/02/13/10/State-Police-investigative-report-86-Bis/landing.html?blockID=180126&feedID=4215

[The Village Idiot]

How do you take 3 shots with a pump action by accident?

Mommy was downstairs and didn't hear nuttin cuz the house is soundproofed, even though Amy heard her brother enter the house from upstairs.

Why was she let go during booking? Mommy was a political figure locally, Delahunt was DA. Police Chief made the call.

She got away with murder. The records vanished about the time Delahunt ran for Congress.

Daddy owned a Yacht Club apparently.

The media is playing down a triple slaying on a College campus. They usually go ape nuts when a shooting happens at a college or school.

[vesta111]

Holy ****!

 

UPDATE: Police released Bishop in 1986 after they received a call from district attorner William Delahunt, now Rep. Delahunt.
The Boston Channel reported:
    When contacted Saturday, Polio, now 86, said that there was no cover up in Seth Bishop’s death, though there were questions about whether the shooting was an accident.

Hat Tip Mrs. Davis

More… Bishop’s mother was in politics on the town Board of Personnel in 1986 at the time of the shooting.

Still More… It’s not the first time Rep. Delahunt has been linked to a murder.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/02/killer-socialist-professor-amy-bishop-shot-killed-her-brother-in-1986/

I am afraid we are all getting so jaded about what is going on around us that it is seldom a surprise when the least people we would expect, go off.

There is so much to this story that we will never know, starting when  Bishop was a child and her mental state when she shot her brother.   It could have been an accident, then again a not planned killing just a spur of the moment insanity.   She was very young, I wonder what she was doing lugging a long gun about her house.

Years and years went by and with all the mega education she had she still could not reach her goal in life Tenture.

After years of waiting she gets up one day to attend a hearing on if she is going to get her carear boost or not this year.  I suspect she knew how the meeting would go, so she packs a gat in her bag and walks out to attend the meeting, armed.

This sounds like premeditation to me, not a knee jerk reaction to her brother as in the past.

One cannot fortell the future, if her family had help most likely it was done with the hope that a child with her brains could grow into a woman who would benefit society.    I just don't know what I would have done had I been her mother, to loose a son and face loosing a daughter is heart wrenching.

My heart goes out to the victims, their family's and  her students.  They had no idea they spent every day with a monster wearing a people suit.   One has only to look at how she was dressed when arrested, for perhaps the most important interview in her life, she dressed like a street person. 



 

[Chris]

The shootings on the university campus opened a window into the pressure-cooker world of biotechnology start-ups, where scientists often depend on their association with academia for a leg up. Bishop was part of a start-up that had won an early round of financing in a highly competitive environment, but people who knew her said she had learned shortly before the shooting that she had been denied tenure at the university. On Friday, Bishop presided over her regular anatomy and neurosciences class before going to an afternoon faculty meeting on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.

There she sat quietly for about 30 or 40 minutes, said one faculty member who had spoken to some of the dozen people who were in the room. Then Bishop pulled out a 9-mm handgun and began shooting, firing several rounds, said the police. At least one person in the room tried to stop Bishop and prevent further bloodshed, said Sgt. Mark Roberts of the Huntsville Police Department.

Bishop stopped shooting when the gun either jammed or ran out of ammunition, said the faculty member.

Mr. Garner said Bishop, who arrived in the 2003-2004 academic year, was first told last spring that she had been denied tenure. If a tenure-track professor is not granted tenure after six years, the university will no longer employ them, said Ray Garner, a spokesman for the university. This would have been the final semester of Bishop’s sixth year. The university does have an appeals process, and people who knew Bishop said she had appealed the decision.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article106554.ece

[Thor]

Had the case where she killed her brother NOT been covered up, she wouldn't have been able to go out and buy a gun very easily.


 BTW, Vesta, 19 years old does not a "child" make. I had been halfway around the world by the time I was 19 and been on my own for two years. Quit making excuses for a murderer!!!  

There is little doubt in MY mind that this was premeditated.

[SVPete]

There is little doubt in MY mind that this was premeditated.

You mean it's unusual for a professors in a faculty meeting to be carrying a gun?

Age 19? By that age I had been living away from home for over a year, 800 or 900 miles away, not just in the next tow. By that age my younger daughter had taken college classes for ~3 years, visited China for about a week (at age 15!) and had spent 2 months in Cambodia and Thailand.

[vesta111]

You mean it's unusual for a professors in a faculty meeting to be carrying a gun?

Age 19? By that age I had been living away from home for over a year, 800 or 900 miles away, not just in the next tow. By that age my younger daughter had taken college classes for ~3 years, visited China for about a week (at age 15!) and had spent 2 months in Cambodia and Thailand.

Yes Pete me too, but at my age today 19 seems so young, living at home with little experiences outside the class room or personal responcibility any kind is sad.

All those years ago had she gone to trial and imprisoned, by now she would be on the streets.  Still no personal responsibility and the mind set she has all ways had.      Insane but a genius or close to it.     

This whole situation is a nightmare for everyone connected with it.   Each time I hear of one of these high educated people going bonkers, my first thought is for the victims family's then for the family of the monster wearing a people suit.

The family's and students of the school that she has shattered will never recover.  A true monster that no one ever expected to be so.  How can a family ever explain to society, friends, the courts, themselves for the guilt of not seeing the signs of what could come.?

This is a true tragedy, for every one who has ever crossed her path.
     

[Alpha Mare]

An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in December of 1993, the Boston Globe reported.

Amy Bishop and her husband James Anderson were questioned by authorities after a package with two bombs were sent to Dr. Paul Rosenberg, the newspaper reported.

Several months after a federal investigation into the Harvard medical professor's attempted bombing a prime suspect was identified, but never named.

An unnamed law enforcement official told the Globe Sunday the suspect was Bishop, and her husband.

At the time, Bishop was a Harvard doctoral student working at the same hospital as Rosenberg.

The official told the Globe Bishop was suspected because she was allegedly concerned she was going to be given a bad evaluation from the professor on her doctorate work.

Her house was searched and she and her husband were questioned, but the U.S. attorney's office in Boston never brought charges against the couple, the Globe reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585854,00.html?test=latestnews

[Chris]

oh boy.

[SVPete]

I wonder if anyone has looked into her family's political connections.

AM, the first function of government wrt criminals is to protect society. If she leaves prison the same idiot she was when she entered (or a worse idiot), that's her responsibility. Government cannot "rehabilitate" prisoners because they aren't will-less machines.