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BRAINTREE SHOOTING SEEN AS ACCIDENT
Boston Globe - Monday, December 8, 1986
An 18-year-old Braintree student, described as an accomplished violinist who had won a number of science awards, was killed Saturday in his home when a shotgun his sister was attempting to unload discharged, police said.
Seth M. Bishop of Braintree died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to a Norfolk County medical examiner and Braintree police investigators.
Police say they have determined that the 12-gauge shotgun was fired by Bishop’s older sister, Amy, and that the shooting was accidental.
Braintree Police Chief John Polio, in reconstructing the shooting yesterday, said that Amy Bishop , 20, had asked her mother, Judith, in the presence of her brother, how to unload a round from the chamber of the weapon.
Polio said that while Amy Bishop was handling the weapon, it discharged, wounding Seth Bishop. He was pronounced dead at 3:08 p.m. Saturday at Quincy City Hospital, 46 minutes after the shooting.
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The medical examiner, Dr. William Ridder of Milton, confirmed yesterday that Bishop had died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Ridder would not say whether he considered the shooting to be accidental.
Seth Bishop, a freshman at Northeastern University majoring in electrical engineering, was born in Boston and had lived in Braintree all his life.
He was a 1986 graduate of Braintree High School, where he was the winner in the science fair competition. He later won third place in the Massachusetts State Science Fair, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
An accomplished violinist, Bishop was a past member of the Braintree High School Orchestra and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to his mother and his sister, he leaves his father, Samuel S.; his maternal grandparents, Joan (Morrison) and Grant Sanborn of Exeter, N.H.; and his paternal grandmother, Theno Papazoglas of Lynn.
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She shot her brother on Dec 6th. The State police report says she was too emotional to be interviewed that day and was remanded to the custody of her parents.
Police did not call her and her family back in for another interview until Dec 17th.
Eleven days! Was was going on in that time period? I bet Delahunt spent the time making the police chief and others offers they could not refuse.