Z10, let the apologies begin!! As authorities searched for clues into what could have sent a University of Alabama neurobiology professor on an alleged killing spree, friends and family yesterday described Braintree native Amy Bishop as an awkward introvert on the brink of losing her teaching job. Bishopâs husband, James Anderson, told the Herald his wife had been fighting the university for over a year about a tenure denial, and several months ago received a final decision. She was upset, but not overly emotional, approaching her appeal âlike a game of chess,â he said. Police in Huntsville, Ala., charged Bishop, 44, with capital murder after she allegedly opened fire on six colleagues at a faculty meeting Friday, killing three. Afterward, she calmly called her husband and asked him to pick her up as if nothing had happened, said police Chief Henry Reyes. âShe was an oddball - just not very sociable,â said Sylvia Fluckiger, a former lab technician who worked with Bishop in 1993. Bishop acknowledged at the time being questioned in the bombing attempt of a Harvard medical doctor evaluating her on doctorate work, a professor with whom Bishop was known to quarrel, Fluckiger said. Reyes confirmed he is working with the FBI to learn more about why Bishop was a suspect in the attempted bombing of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, who received a double-pipe bomb in the mail on Dec. 19, 1993. He ran from his Newton home with his wife, escaping without injury. The bomb never exploded. âShe was quite cavalier about it,â Fluckiger said of Bishopâs description of her interview with police. She said Bishop âgrinnedâ as she described being asked by cops whether sheâd ever taken stamps off an envelope and fastened them onto something else. âI cannot tell you what the grin meant,â Fluckiger said. Seven years prior, Bishop shot her brother to death in Braintree in an incident that was ruled an accident at the time. But Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier has raised questions about the handling of the case, and officials are investigating missing records in the 1986 death of 18-year-old Seth Bishop. A classmate of Seth Bishopâs recalled yesterday that the boy, who was âpainfully shy,â never talked about his older, only sibling. âIt was as if he was a complete stranger in her life. It seemed like a dysfunctional family. We just accepted them as being odd,â said the classmate, who spoke to the Herald on condition of anonymity. Amy Bishop, he said, âwasnât mean because she wasnât someone you could get close to. She wasnât an attractive girl, she didnât have friends. She didnât work at having friends. I think people probably, over time, learned to leave her alone.â The Bishop household, he said, âwas anything but a home . . . It was just a really dreary, dark place where there wasnât a lot of love.â Meanwhile, in an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, Anderson said he was searching for the âtriggerâ to his wifeâs breakdown, and that he wondered whether an e-mail message - potentially in the form of a final tenure denial - might have upset her, because university higher-ups were known to send ânastygramsâ on Fridays. A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was âobsessedâ with President Obama to the point of being off-putting. But Mercedes Paz, a Brookline biochemist who also oversaw Bishopâs work in 1993, described her as a friend and a likable woman. Quincy man recalls Bishop holdup:+ Quincy man recalls Bishop holdup (370) Comments | Post / Read Comments Next Article in Local Coverage: Pain and closure for Gengel family Page: 1 2 Continue » Advertisement Photo by AP 1 2 IN MOURNING: A student leaves a bouquet at a University of Alabam at Huntsville monument yesterday. Related Articles Prof charged in Alabama rampage made discrimination claim By Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Ala. â Officials say a professor accused in a deadly campus shooting... Ex-ADA: No reason to question Bishop police probe By Associated Press The former assistant district attorney who reviewed the Massachusetts police investigation... Retired chief on 1986 Amy Bishop shooting: âA myriad of questionsâ By Laura Crimaldi The former Braintree police chief who defended the decision not to charge accused... More on: + University of Alabama + Amy Bishop + James Anderson Top articles in News & Opinion 1.âOddballâ portrait of Amy Bishop emerges 2.Alleged killer professor on suicide watch 3.Menino whacks weather guys for âfake stormâ 4.Gloucester mourns âtragic lossâ of teen 5.Survivor: Ala. prof in slayings shot methodically Advertisement
Just more evidence of the double standard enjoyed by the radical left. Even though there were complaints, she got the lefty pass. One can only imagine what we'd be hearing if she had been waving a confederate flag, or even an American flag for that matter. It would be 24/7 coverage looking for her affiliations with some militia group. Her being a lefty...not a peep. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. â Students say they complained to administrators about an Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting. The students upset with biology professor Amy Bishop told The Associated Press they went to University of Alabama in Huntsville administrators at least three times, complaining she was ineffective in the classroom and had odd, unsettling ways. A petition signed by dozens of students was sent to the department head. But students said the complaints made a year ago didn't result in any changes in the classroom.
You're saying that if a teacher were waving the confederate flag, proclaiming the rise of the south, and perhaps even a return to antebellum "conditions", in a Massachusetts classroom, that the press would be ALL over it? No way!