Professor in Ala. slayings shot amd kill brother in Mass

[Dr.Dudd]

<span style="font-weight: bold"> Professor accused in Ala. slayings shot her brother in Mass. 24 years ago</span>
E-mail|Link February 13, 2010 01:53 PM



Bob Gathany/Huntsville Times/AP



Amy Bishop was placed in a squad car after her arrest.


By John M. Guilfoil and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

The University of Alabama biology professor accused of slaying three of her colleagues fatally shot her brother in an apparent accident in Massachusetts more than two decades ago, a local police chief said.

Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier confirmed the 1986 shooting in his town and slated a news conference this afternoon to discuss the incident.

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

John Polio, chief of police at the time, said Amy Bishop, who was 20 at the time, had asked her mother, Judith, in the presence of her brother how to unload a round from the chamber of a 12-gauge shotgun.

Polio told the Globe that while Amy Bishop was handling the weapon, it fired, wounding Seth Bishop in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead at a hospital 46 minutes after the Dec. 6, 1986 shooting.

&quot;Every indication at this point in time leads us to believe it was an accidental shooting,&quot; Polio said at the time.

In Friday's shooting, Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, allegedly shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others in an apparent tenure dispute at the Huntsville campus, the Associated Press reports

[Nunya]

Re: Professor in Ala. slayings shot amd kill brother in Mass

Got something in common, eh doc?

[Gen]

Re: Professor in Ala. slayings shot amd kill brother in Mass

knew it had to be about tenure when dem seh professor

geez it not dat serous man, cuss out smaddy and gwaan bout yuh business, now yuh a guh spend yuh days in the jail library.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Professor in Ala. slayings shot amd kill brother in Mass

Tenure for lazy people is that serious.

since once tenured, you can't be fired.
unless your action is criminal or almost.
It also give you vote on who get tenured in the department too. So it is very big thing, for some people.
this woman has been a nutcase long ago.
She was a suspect in the mail bomb to one of her evaluators while at Harvard too.
So she seem to have a reputation, of taking it real hard.
You alsocan't do much since they are likely to hold it against you for future evaluation So if you are a nutcase, it is a problem that you can't live with. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">knew it had to be about tenure when dem seh professor

geez it not dat serous man, cuss out smaddy and gwaan bout yuh business, now yuh a guh spend yuh days in the jail library. </div></div>