Woman Shoots Three Dead At US University

[Blackcatnursery]

Breaking News

11:05pm UK, Friday February 12, 2010

Woman Shoots Three Dead At US University


A woman has shot dead three people at an American university.

The attacker wounded three more people at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
"We have three confirmed people who are dead, one injured," a college spokesman said.
"The police have secured the building. The shooter is in custody."
The suspect is in custody.
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[goat89]

SH*T... RIP to the the dead. :(

[HVU]

**** that ****.. RIP:-|

[FlintHillBilly]

RIP to the dead.

Not to often you hear its a woman that goes balistic.

[FrankBooth0]

The new here reported it as the shooter being a professor. Apparently it was over a denial of tenure and the victims were colleagues.

RIP

[gaijinsamurai]

RIP to the dead.

Hoping for a quick trial and execution for the shooter.

[FrankBooth0]

Sure you do. Every 3-4 weeks broham.


Seriously tasteless

[lotsoffreetime]

A professor, of all people?

RIP to the dead, speedy recovery to the injured.

[FrankBooth0]

The Huntsville Times has IDed the shooter as Dr. Amy Bishop, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist and biology professor at the University of Huntsville-Alabama. (PHOTO HERE (http://media.al.com/huntsville-times/photo/-93b36a383a9e66de.jpg)) She and her husband have been detained. They have not been charged with a crime. /via The Huntsville Times (http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/02/biology_professor_accused_in_u.html)
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[msnger]

the shocking thing about this tragedy is that the perp was a female.

[crush6655]

A professor, of all people?
I'll remember that the next time I go ****o during lectures....

RIP

[lotsoffreetime]

A quick google image search had revealed her face. She looks pretty harmless.

[G-AWZT]

My father was tenured faculty from 1959-2008. All universities are beginning to phase out tenure unfortunately.

[eechoss]

Jeez, things like these just shake ya to the core, Rest in Peace.

[Niall]

Thats quite sad.. University is meant to be about getting drunk not shooting people. I wonder what made her decide to kill people instead of talk to her superior about her problem with the work.

[Geezah]

Thats quite sad.. University is meant to be about getting drunk not shooting people. I wonder what made her decide to kill people instead of talk to her superior about her problem with the work.

Where do you come up with the sh!te you post on here........?

RIP

[themacedonian]

lonely students ..... loner gunmen ...... right wing extremists ....... muslim extremists ..... mentally disturbed people .......

what is this one going to be? Highly educated (Harvard University trained biology professor), well off, married white woman .....

this is disturbing

if she has the nerve or the reason to pull out a gun and shoot then what about the rest of the population

[I can't think of a name]

First a psycologist at Ft. Hood and now a neuroscientist.

[SoSo]

RIP to the dead.

Hoping for a quick trial and execution for the shooter.

Dr.Bishop is unlikely to face execution. Our justice system tends to deal with murderesses with comparative leniency; obviously juries can more easily be swayed to sympathize with a woman. Often, they are merely imprisoned for crimes that a man would be put to death for. I probably shouldn't say "merely", as incarceration is no small thing, and in any case she's not going to have an easy time of it in prison (or in a mental hospital - what else can her defense team do, but try an insanity defense?) as she probably won't have much in common with the other inmates.
May Dr. Bishop's three victims rest in peace.

[Geezah]

lonely students ..... loner gunmen ...... right wing extremists ....... muslim extremists ..... mentally disturbed people .......

what is this one going to be? Highly educated (Harvard University trained biology professor), well off, married white woman .....

this is disturbing

if she has the nerve or the reason to pull out a gun and shoot then what about the rest of the population

What about them?

Does it concern you that anyone at anytime could snap?

Welcome to the real World.

[deagle]

damn, and its not even finals week yet.

seriously, its sad to hear this day and age.

[JJC]

My father was tenured faculty from 1959-2008. All universities are beginning to phase out tenure unfortunately. Unfortunately? Thank God if that's true. A lot of tenured professors are not motivated to be productive because nothing but a stroke will threaten their salaries.

[Curtis E. Bear]

Would not have happened if you were allowed to CC on campus.

[digrar]

A quick google image search had revealed her face. She looks pretty harmless.

Apart from the crazy eyes...

[Hilbert]

Would not have happened if you were allowed to CC on campus.

Maybe, maybe not. Either way, this is not the place for political statements.

R.I.P.

[themacedonian]

What about them?

Does it concern you that anyone at anytime could snap?

Welcome to the real World.

I understand the snapping part however it does take a lot of patience to get through to university. Especially professors and teachers. Not every one can teach. Most teachers are calm and composed otherwise they can not handle difficult students.

That is my real world and in a real world a professor does not pull a gun on other people.

[BMUS]

What about them?

Does it concern you that anyone at anytime could snap?

Welcome to the real World.
Yes. It very much do. If they own a handgun.

[Kit]

She went ballistic over being denied tenure? She must've crazy in the first place. Most people would have a good cry and move on. Not shoot their colleagues. Good grief, there must be more to this story.

RIP to the fallen though. This is sad.

[FrankBooth0]

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- One person is in critical condition tonight and two people have been upgraded to stable after a deadly shooting at UAH.
G.K. Podila, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson, all three faculty members at the university, died shortly after the afternoon shooting at the Shelby Center.

Joseph Leahy is in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital. Stephanie Monticello and Luis Rogelio Cruz-Vera are now stable, officials said.


Apparently she had a future ahead of her, but decided to murder innocent people instead.


Bishop is quoted in the story as co-inventor of "InQ," a new cell growth incubator which promised to cut the costs, size and maintenance involved in the mechanics of cell generation.

[nemowork]

I understand the snapping part however it does take a lot of patience to get through to university. Especially professors and teachers. Not every one can teach. Most teachers are calm and composed otherwise they can not handle difficult students.

That is my real world and in a real world a professor does not pull a gun on other people.

Dr. Valery Fabrikant and Professor George Zinkhan say otherwise.


She went ballistic over being denied tenure? She must've crazy in the first place. Most people would have a good cry and move on. Not shoot their colleagues. Good grief, there must be more to this story.

RIP to the fallen though. This is sad.

Might be a good reason why they denied her? academia's well known for being a place where the more eccentric type can develop their oddness into an artform away from the interference of the real world and mostly its harmless, its also somewhere you can get into developing grudges based on nothing but personalities and opinion and turn them into the sort of conflict that would make the Hatfields and McCoys wince, add a healthy dose of people who believe in their own intellectual superiority way beyond their actual talents and you can get some very poisonous situations.

[G-AWZT]

Unfortunately? Thank God if that's true. A lot of tenured professors are not motivated to be productive because nothing but a stroke will threaten their salaries.


Well it's great to get rid of tenure if the professor stinks and never publishes anything. But it's worthwhile to keep for those who do research, publish and have positive comments from students.
I can think of a number of profs who definately deserved their tenure and a handful that should've been fired let alone be given tenure.


All the shootings at my father's university were from Chinese grad students (most in either Chem or Biochem) who upon failing a class shot their professor. Another blew his brains out instead of killing his major professor. 2 major buildings devoted to the physical sciences were named after dead profs.

[themacedonian]

Unfortunately? Thank God if that's true. A lot of tenured professors are not motivated to be productive because nothing but a stroke will threaten their salaries.

I had to look up what tenured mean as in Australia and in Europe that is not the practice. There is no lifelong professor position.

[pg_ord]

Sad to hear. RIP to the dead. .... was there in UAH last year attending conference. :(

[makavelli]

Rest in Peace..
very sad news indeed

[Hando]

RIP to the victims...

There isn't enough information yet, possibly she was copping harrassment from colleagues until the denial which pushed her over and the facility is stonewalling investigations.
Until this gets cracked wide open we just don't know what the hell was going through her mind.

[nagant_m44]

http://web.archive.org/web/20070820140857/www.uah.edu/colleges/science/biology/amy/amy.htm

[AZZenny]

Crazy is gender-neutral. So are firearms. Women are just as capable of blind rage and violence, they just traditionally don't get the cultural 'permission' to explore it -- but the more the media creams over ratings when people go Postal, the more wide-spread this kind of stuff will become.

Anyhow -- I don't care if she was crudely harassed and tenure denied on the flip of a two-tailed coin -- don't start trying to explain away cold-blooded murder. Her research looks tight so it suggests she was identified as a wacko and may have been denied tenure on teaching or departmental discomfort. It looks like most of the people she went after were older, established professors, so could be payback.

Hmmm... if the crazy Major Nidal had been bounced out at Walter Reed as he should have been instead of shifted to Ft. Hood, perhaps he would he have taken out his 'persecutors' among faculty and colleagues. Wonder if any of them thought about that and passed the buck?

[G-AWZT]

All that work, all those nights cramming, all the anxiety for the comps............................and you flip out and kill two human beings who also went through the grad school ringer to get their Masters and PhDs. All just a waste.

No wonder my father said "good riddance" after 49 years of inter departmental squabbling and wrangling. He was offered the chairmanship of his department a few times. He said no way. No wonder.

[jklv]

Rest in peace

[Policía Loco]

I understand the snapping part however it does take a lot of patience to get through to university. Especially professors and teachers. Not every one can teach. Most teachers are calm and composed otherwise they can not handle difficult students.

That is my real world and in a real world a professor does not pull a gun on other people.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

People are the same, it doesn't matter what they do. You see them carry themselves in only a small part of their lives.

But, me, I would have guessed it be the one so typical of this type of situation. The "angry white male".

[Astaran]

Sad news. Rest in Peace and my condolences to the families. Speedy recovery to the wounded.

[Sand Man]

'Rest in peace' to the dead and a speedy recovery to those that were injured. :(

[Shadowstorm]

Rest in Peace o the victims and I hope the injured gets better.

[Winger]

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.


Ironically, many who can do, can't teach.

Anyways, RIP. I'm sure there is more to this like many on here said.

[Geezah]

Yes. It very much do. If they own a handgun.

Yeah, because no-one has ever gone on a rampage with a knife.

Stop focusing on the item used.

[commanding]

RIP to the dead. Amazing to me that evidently this woman was a Ph.D and graduated from Harvard or some Ivy league school........and still was unbalanced enough to do such a deed. I think sometimes that we (in the USA) need some courses in school on subjects like "being centered" and understanding the big picture, life, and your place in society. Her loosing it to the extent she somehow percieved she was justified in killing people because she did not get tenure....is so absurd....shows she did not get the big picture.

[commanding]

Ironically, many who can do, can't teach.

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good observation...I agree.

[AZZenny]

Word now coming out that she killed her brother with a shotgun 15 or so years ago; it was ruled accidental, but the police file of the incident has gone missing.

[I can't think of a name]

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

She shot and killed her Brother in 1986 and got off......

[AZZenny]

Shot him accidentally... three times.

Sooooo, prolly safe to say this isn't out of character, after all.

[G-AWZT]

Looking at her mug shot she does have a wee case of crazies.

[ggk]

rest in peace

[Siddar]

How do you acidentaly shoot someone three times with a shotgun?

I would think after the first round gun and person firing it would be on the ground from not being braced right.

[Connaught Ranger]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100214/twl-university-shooting-suspect-killed-b-3fd0ae9.html


University Shooting Suspect 'Killed Brother'

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Amy Bishop was never charged in her brother's death, Police Chief Paul Frazier said.

Police records detailing the 1986 incident are missing, and a log of the incident lists it as an accidental shooting, he said.

An officer involved in the case told him that Anderson shot her brother after an argument, Chief Frazier said.

Bishop has been charged with capital murder after the shooting at University of Alabama in Huntsville, which means she could face the death penalty if convicted.

A man, thought to be Bishop's husband, is also in custody.

Huntsville police chief Henry Reyes said Bishop, 45, was attending a faculty meeting on the third floor of the sciences building on Friday afternoon when she shot six colleagues, killing three.

Bishop, a lecturer and researcher at the university, was arrested as she was leaving the building.

Police said a 9 mm handgun was recovered from the second floor of the building.

Bishop, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, was taken in handcuffs to the county jail.

As she got into a police car, she said, "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."

Connaught Ranger.

[Laconian]

RIP to the victims.

[khukuri]

must have been her religion that made her do this

[LineDoggie]

must have been her religion that made her do this Why, was she yelling God is Great, aka Olive Snackbar over and over like a mindless drone?

[G-AWZT]

She has obvious issues but not enough to get stamped "INSANE". Her plot was premeditated by bringing a gun to a tenure meeting. She even threatened to blow up her major professor when she was getting her doctorate.
I hope she enjoys prison for life.

[Stainless Steel Rat]

I live outside Huntsville, last week we had this happen (about 2-3 miles from where I live) http://www.myfoxal.com/Global/story.asp?S=11943076 and now this. The Huntsville Times Saturday headline was simply "NOT AGAIN"

In general this is a pretty peaceful area, folks are a bit shocked with what is happening.

[Dragonscript]

RIP to the victims.

Last semester i had a professor who said to the class that all grades were negotiable and that he didn't want anyone coming to class and shoot someone. He said it in a humorous way but still, these type of events are on the minds of many professors.

[Universal_Soldier]

RIP to the dead.

[Sootan]

How do you acidentaly shoot someone three times with a shotgun?

I would think after the first round gun and person firing it would be on the ground from not being braced right.

Maybe an autoshotgun with a hair trigger?

[SBL]

Word now coming out that she killed her brother with a shotgun 15 or so years ago; it was ruled accidental, but the police file of the incident has gone missing.
She was also suspected of being involved in a mail-bomb plot, apparently.

[KSingh77]

Damn this is messed up.

All because she was denied her tenure job and goes on a shooting ramage.

Put her in a cell with a women ten times her size.