Liberal Congressman Bill Delahunt in better days with Hugo Chavez
Posted on 02/16/2010 2:33:57 AM PST by outpostinmass2
At least you didn't say Cain and Seth :-)
The Republicans could use and have better spokesmen than Malone. Malone’s tenure as Treasurer was an embarassment.
BRAINTREE —
This story appeared on page 1 of the Patriot Ledger on Dec. 8, 1986.
Sister kills teenager in shotgun accident at home
BRAINTREE – An 18-year-old who won prizes in science and music was killed when his sister accidentally fired a shotgun she was trying to unload in the kitchen of their Braintree home Saturday afternoon.
Seth M. Bishop, a freshman at Northeastern University in Boston, was shot in his home at 46 Hollis Ave., at about 2:20 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Police said his sister, Amy Bishop, was trying to unload the pump-action, 12-gauge shotgun when it discharged.
The fatal shooting was witnessed by Bishop’s mother, Judith, according to authorities.
The shotgun was registered to Bishop’s father, Samuel S. Bishop, a professor at Northeastern University.
According to investigators, Amy Bishop had been taught how to use the shotgun by her father. On the day of the accident, she was handling the loaded weapon in the home, although investigators said it was not clear why.
She pumped a round from the magazine into the firing chamber of the shotgun, then went into the kitchen and asked her brother and mother for help when she couldn’t eject the shell from the chamber, investigators said.
Her mother instructed Amy Bishop to pump the shotgun again, which ejected the first shell, according to an investigator. However, she apparently pumped the weapon again and unknowingly advanced a second shell from the magazine to the chamber.
Thinking the weapon was empty, she pulled the trigger, the investigator said. The blast struck her brother, who was standing three to four feet in front of her, authorities said.
Dr. William P. Ridder, an associate Norfolk County medical examiner, said Bishop was shot once in the lower right chest with bird-shot. He said Bishop showed faint signs of life when ambulance attendants arrived at the home, but attempts at reviving him were not successful. Bish was pronounced dead at 3:08 p.m. at Quincy City Hospital.
The accident is under investigation by Braintree police and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, but authorities said they don’t expect charges to be filed
Bishop graduated from Braintree High School this spring near the top of his class. He was a freshan at Northeastern University, studying electrical engineering.
Teachers say he was an accomplished violinist. He began studying music in elementary school and developed a broad repertoire. He was a member of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Braintree High School Orchestra and other student orchestras.
He received fine arts awards from state groups and the high school, including the Arian Award for Music. He won the Science Fair at the high school, second prize in the district science fair and third prize in the state science fair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
“He had great potential and he was interested in all aspects of science,” said Paul Hogan, head of the high school sciences department. “I know he would have been very successful in whatever he chose to do.”
Teachers recalled Bishop as a shy but friendly student who enjoyed school but kept to a small circle of friends who shared his interests in music and science.
“He was extremely gifted, so intelligent that I think many other students didn’t understand him,” said Dr. Katherine Dewey, head of the music department at the high school. “He was one of those genius kids who marched to the beat of his own drum.
“Once kids got to know him, they accepted him. They sort of looked after Seth, had him take part in whatever they were doing.”
Dewey said Amy Bishop, who graduated from the high school two years ago, was also a talented violing who had gone on to study at Northeastern.
“They were very much alike, shy and pretty much out of the mainstream,” she said.
This story appeared the next day, also starting on page 1:
Gun fired moments before teen’s death
BRAINTREE – The shotgun that accidentally killed an 18-year-old college student in the kitchen of his Braintree home Saturday had gone off moments before in an upstairs bedroom.
After she accidentally discharged the gun into her bedroom wall, the victim’s sister, Amy, carried the weapon downstairs and asked for help unloading it. It was then that the shotgun discharged a second time, fatally wounding Seth M. Bishop, police said.
“It all happened in a split-second in front of me,” Judith Bishop, their mother, said this morning. “I keep seeing it over and over in my mind.”
Mrs. Bishop said Amy was trying to teach herself how to use the 12-gauge shotgun in case burglars broke into the house.
The family purchased the gun after their Hollis Avenue home was burglarized a year ago, Mrs. Bishop said.
When the shotgun went off in her bedroom, Amy Bishop, 20, became frightened and “highly emotional” and went downstairs to her mother and brother to find out how to unload it, Braintree Police Capt. Theodore Buker said.
“She came downstairs to the kitchen seeking help on how to unload it,” Buker said. “Her mother said something like, ‘Be careful where you point that’ and as she turned around (toward her brother) the gun discharged.”
Seth Bishop, a 1986 Braintree High School graduate and an award-winning violinist, was struck in the lower chest by the shotgun blast.
His funeral was today at All Souls Church in Braintree and he was to be buried later today in Exeter, N.H. He was a student of electrical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston.
Mrs. Bishop said last year’s burglary was followed by an attempted housebreak just before Thanksgiving. Buker confirmed those incidents.
“I think she (Amy) thought she should know how to use it in case she was home alone,” Mrs. Bishop said. “She didn’t know anything about it.”
Buker said after the gun went off in her bedroom, Amy Bishop apparently pumped a second shell into the firing chamber, then went downstairs seeking help. He said she probably did not know she had advanced a second shell into the chamber.
“It is not an automatic weapon, so in order for the shell to be advanced, it would have to be pumped,” Buker said. “It isn’t particularly hard to do.”
Buker’s comments clarified a report in yesterday’s Patriot Ledger which said Amy Bishop tried to unload the shotgun by pumping it and had ejected a shell, but inadvertently loaded a second shell into the firing chamber and pulled the trigger.
Both Buker and Mrs. Bishop said Amy Bishop did not try to unload the weapon because she did not understand how it worked.
After the incident, Amy Bishop ran from the house with the weapon. Police officers found her a short time later near Braintree Square in a “highly emotional state.”
Samuel S. Bishop, the father of Amy and Seth, was not at home at the time of the accident, Buker said.
nothing in the story about attempted armed car-jacking. Convenient.
Files are missing that might discredit a Democrat? Paging Sandy Berger!
The story doesn’t even come close to passing the smell test. She shot up her bedroom and then came downstairs and accidently shot her brother. It sounds to me like she was chasing her brother. The statement from the people at the car dealership who she held at gunpoint is just icing on the cake.
What has bothered me about this from the beginning of this story is this comment about how she ran downstairs to seek help with unloading the gun after it went off.
I would almost guarantee that if a shotgun went off in the upstairs part of the house the residents would rush to that part of the house to find out what the noise was. This crud that she came downstairs to seek help with unloading the gun after it discharged is BS.
Liberal Congressman Bill Delahunt in better days with Hugo Chavez
In her “Highly emotional” state she remembered to put on her coat before running out of the house.... While carrying the shotgun... I don’t think so !
Clearly, the mother was part of the deliberate coverup, to come up with that BS story.
It happens sometimes. She just “lost” her son, and was afraid she might “lose” her daughter too....(to jail or the nut farm).
After a true “accidental” discharge upstairs, she would have been in shock from the surprise recoil and blast.
She would have set the shotgun down on the nearest bed or the floor, I 100% guarandamntee.
She was “emotional” all right, as she came down the stairs....chasing and killing her brother.
And mom helped manufacture the coverup.
Absolutely. That was my thought too. Throw it down and get away from it.
The Boston Globe is still in lock down mode. They aren’t allowing comments in stories related to this incident.
Delahunt must be in real trouble here.
Hope so.
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