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Brain -> Previous shooting death by Alabama suspect (2/14/2010 12:46:15 PM)
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As long as you keep the guns in your states in the south like Bama and South Carolina to “protect” yourselves it’s ok with me. What a waste, she had such a great job too. Anybody want to be her valentine? Oh lord, please don't let her be misunderstood.
Previous shooting death by Alabama suspect
The neurobiologist accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, on Friday fatally shot her brother in 1986 in suburban Boston, and the police there are now questioning whether they mishandled that case when they let her go without filing charges.
Early Saturday, the police in Huntsville charged the neurobiologist, Amy Bishop (45), with capital murder in the shootings during a faculty meeting that also left three people wounded. Bishop, who appeared to have had a promising future in the biotechnology business, had recently been told she would not be granted tenure, said university officials.
On Saturday afternoon, police in Braintree, Massachusetts, announced that Bishop had fatally wounded her brother, Seth Bishop, 24 years ago in an argument in their home, which The Boston Globe first reported on its website. The police were considering reopening the case, in which Bishop was not charged and the case records were no longer available, said Paul Frazier, the Braintree police chief.
“The release of Bishop did not sit well with the police officers,” said Mr. Frazier in a statement, “and I can assure you that this would not happen in this day and age.” He told reporters at a news conference on Saturday that the original account describing the shooting as an accident had been inaccurate and, said The Globe, that while he was reluctant to use the word “cover-up,” it did not “look good” that the detailed records of the case have been missing since 1988.
In 1986, The Globe reported that John Polio, then the police chief, said Bishop, who was about 20, had asked her mother, Judith, how to unload a 12-gauge shotgun. While Bishop was handling the weapon, it fired, hitting her brother in the abdomen.
Mr. Frazier said in his statement the officer on duty, Ronald Solimini, remembered that Bishop had argued with her brother and shot and killed him with a pump-action shotgun. She fired another round from the shotgun into the ceiling as she left the home, said the officer, and fled down the street with the shotgun. The officer remembered her pointing the shotgun at a motor vehicle in an attempt to get the driver to stop, said the chief.
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article106554.ece
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