Dr. Amy Bishop, neuroscientist, has been charged with one count of capital murder, after shooting on the Huntsville campus of the University of Alabama, leaves three dead, three injured.
Dr. Amy Bishop, taken into custody after shooting on campus of University of Alabama
(Huntsville Times/Bob Gathney)
Dr. Amy Bishop, a Harvard University trained neuroscientist, has been charged with one count of capital in connection with three fatal shootings on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville Friday. Her husband, Jim Anderson is being classified as a person of interest. UAH spokesman Ray Garner said the three faculty members who were fatally shot are Gopi K. Podila, chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences; Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. They were killed on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology. Three people were injured and are being treated at Huntsville Hospital. Police told WAFF 48 News that Dr. Bishop went ballistic when she learned she would not receive tenure during a Biology faculty meeting. She then pulled out a gun and began shooting. Garner said of the three people injured, two were also faculty members and a third was a member of the university staff.
Dr. Bishop reportedly joined the faculty of UAH in 2003. Bishop, along with her husband, who is chief science officer of Cherokee Labsystems in Huntsville, placed third in a state-wide competition with their "portable cell incubator," which netted them $25,000 in seed money to develop their project. Though her profile has been removed from UAH's website, upon researching her name on Google, I found out that her areas of research focused on the role of gases on the central nervous system, particularly nitrous oxide.
Her lab was reportedly working on the development of a "neural computer," dubbed the "Nuristor," which would use living neurons taken from stem cells or fish. She also developed the InQ, which is a "precision instrument designed to increase the precision and consistency of cell growth in laboratory experimentation." What in the world would cause this woman, with such a long list of accomplishments, to allegedly engage in such acts of violence?
UPDATE#1: It would seem that Amy Bishop is not stranger to committing a crime using a gun. She killed her brother, Seth Bishop, in 1986 in their Braintree, Massachusetts home. Police said the records of that incident are missing. She reportedly fired three shots, hitting her brother once and hitting her bedroom wall before she was taken into police custody at gunpoint. It seems that this woman was given a pass then only to re-offend and show her true colors more than 20 years later. in what was considered an accidental shooting.
There's more to this woman's past. Before she could be booked for killing her brother, the then-police chief, John Polio, reportedly called officers and told them to release her to her mother. The shooting was then logged as an accident and the detailed records vanished into thin air. Oh, what great things a life of privilege affords one. This woman should have been charged with murder for the death of her brother. How do you just sweep murder under a rug?
UPDATE#2: According to the Boston Herald, Amy Bishop, who is a mother to four children, was a far left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President Obama to the point of being unsettling. Here we go, a race angle is being made that this woman, who shot and killed three people of color, is not a racist. She's a murderer who should have been locked up for killing her brother, an accomplished violinist in 1986.
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