Posted on 02/17/2010 5:52:10 AM PST by outpostinmass2
Amy Bishop was crouched behind a parked car, gripping a pump-action shotgun with one shell in the chamber and another in her pocket. Workers at a nearby business were yelling, “There’s a girl with a gun!’’ and running away.
A police officer approached cautiously, holding his pistol behind his leg as he tried to reason with the wild-eyed 21-year-old. But Bishop would not budge.
“Miss Bishop seemed frightened, disoriented, and confused, but she kept both her hands on the shotgun at all times,’’ the officer wrote in a police report. “She wouldn’t drop the gun.’’
It wasn’t until another officer sneaked up behind her that Bishop was finally handcuffed and taken to the Braintree police station that December day in 1986.
Bishop was not charged in the events of that day, which began with the shooting death of her brother and was followed by her attempt to hold up an auto dealership and her bid to resist arrest.
Now, she is a 45-year-old biology professor accused of gunning down three colleagues in Alabama last week, and prosecutors here in Massachusetts are taking another look at the incidents in Braintree in 1986.
They concluded yesterday that there had been probable cause to charge her in the decades-old case, if not in the death of her brother, which was deemed accidental, then for her actions afterward.
The reports prosecutors used to make the determination - which included statements that Bishop, her mother, and her father made to Braintree police - were released publicly for the first time yesterday and paint a vivid portrait of a harrowing series of events that chilly December day.
In some respects it seemed like a typical Saturday. Amy’s mother, Judy, left the house at about 7 a.m. to visit a nearby stable, while her husband and two
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And how do you accidentally fire three shots with a pump-action shot gun, as the original story of the killing of her brother states?
Something smells of foul here.
We can only thank the Lord that she didn’t take out a lecture theatre full of kids.
Amy Bishop is a metaphor for the American higher education system today.
WOW. Puts this person into perspective. All this was dismissed, no charges, nada. If a guy did this he would have been in prison for 5 years.
How is it that this woman is “teaching” kids (college kids) and not counting flowers on the wall in some rubber room????
Not charged???????
There’s obviously MUCH more to this story.
This was no parking ticket.
They needed more lunatics.
“How is it that this woman is “teaching” kids (college kids) and not counting flowers on the wall in some rubber room????....”
Gives you some perspective on just how far the progressives have denigrated our educational system. I don’t see how we’re going to be able to exist with these whackos....there is nothing any more dangerous in society today than a whacked-out progressive/liberal in possession of a loaded firearm. 20-30 years ago, they’d been locked up in a padded cell, now they’re “educating” our young.
Ayn Rand was right as rain with “Atlas Shrugged”...Not only are the leftist socialists indoctrinating our kids with their filth, but are creating a “lazy, uneducated” generation that won’t be able to take care of things even if they wanted to...
According to BOR, you can't fire that many shots from a shotgun without re-loading....
According to this article, she was 21 at the time. I've also read that she was 20......and that she was 19...
According to Roccus, ya can't believe ANYTHING that comes from ANY of the media....or the PD.....or the DA at the time....
Well, my Remington 870 Wingmaster has a plug that only allows three in the tube...Take out the plug and I have room for five...
BOR is full of crap...
It's hard to believe that after all her violent encounters, no one thought there was something wrong with this lady?
BTW, the Remington 870 IS a pump-action shotgun...
BOR is really smart ...
“Something smells of foul here.”
I do wonder WHO are the folks giving off the stench...
need some honest, investigative reporting... time to put some local freepers to work and then watch the guilty scramble and run for cover...
This maniac of a woman held cops at gunpoint and she was allowed ANYWHERE near kids???!?
One only has to know that this took place in Kennedy’s Massachusetts.
Yep...for duck hunting, I always put in the plug...as you had to. For pheasants, quail, grouse, rabbit...no plug and 5 total (one in chamber, and 4 more ready to go in after the pump). I’m sure BOR would not want to stand in front of my 12 ga. after 3 shells were fired to see if any more remained.
...AND, she’s a flaming lib!
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