Posted on 02/16/2010 8:51:46 AM PST by freespirited
A former Massachusetts prosecutor says there was no reason to believe it was anything but an accident when a professor now accused of killing three colleagues in Alabama shot her brother to death two decades ago.
Former assistant district attorney John Kivlan said Tuesday that a joint investigation by state and local police as well as the medical examiner's office all concluded Seth Bishop's 1986 death was an accident.
His sister, Amy, is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama-Huntsville on Friday and injuring three others.
Kivlan is now retired from the Norfolk District Attorney's office. He said he was not aware of reports that Amy Bishop went to a nearby auto body shop after the Massachusetts shooting and demanded a car. He said that may or may not have changed his assessment of the case.
Ya think??
The key to this mystery is DemonRat congersman William Delahunt.He was the DA who dropped all charges and ruled it an accident.
What a load of self-serving, steaming crap!
Yeah. Loads of people accidentally discharge a shotgun THREE TIMES!
Frankly, I think there is still a role for good, old-fashioned frontier justice to play in the American “justice” system. A culture can “civilize” itself to extinction.
Particularly a PUMP shotgun...
Exactly! The story goes she was trying to unload it in her room (after practicing loading it - ya, right) when it went off. At that point she runs downstairs to get help with unloading it when it "accidentally" went off again right at her brother's chest. At that point she went running outside when it went off a third time. (Amazing how pump shotguns can do this. I want one.)
We can only assume that she went running to the car dealer, shotgun still in hand, still looking for help with unloading it. I can't wait to hear what Delahunt has to say about this.
I think the truth will leak out. Maybe Fuhrman could go up to Braintree and get a start on his next book :-)
If you “accidently” discharge a firearm, do you run downstairs holding the weapon where, oops, you “accidently” discharge it again into your brother’s chest, and oops, accidently discharge it into the ceiling, and then run outside - STILL HOLDING ON TO THE WEAPON - and point it in a threatening matter at two other people?
Sure.
Most people unfamilar with firearms, if they accidently discharged a weapon, would but the damned thing down and leave it alone while they sought help.
Funny how the guy who was held at gun point recalls having law enforcement interview him about the incident.
Exactly. Heck, in the old days, they often didn’t even bother with trials. The posse came after you and if they wished, they could arrange that you were killed in self-defense or died trying to escape. Who else would know? It helped to curb crime and today it would save taxpayers money.
This whole thing bugs me. I realize that things happen quickly, but 5 people can't get a jammed gun away from a woman? Pushing her out WITH THE GUN is cowardice. It gives her time to unjam the gun and go after them or other innocents! And methodolically shooting 6 people in the head before the gun jams??? Had the gun not jammed, it seems like none of the 11 would have fought back.
In Sandy Berger's pants?
If I’m not mistaken I think you have to load a shotgun more than once to shoot at someone THREE TIMES.
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Amy Bishop Seth M. Bishop, in the abdomen with a 12-gauge shotgun in December 1986.
The report said Bishop was asking her mother, Judith, how to properly unload the gun when it when off and a shot struck Seth.
Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier is now offering a different account of the shooting to The Globe: “Bishop had shot her brother during an argument and was being booked by police when the police chief at the time ordered the booking process stopped and Bishop released to her mother,” the paper reports on its Web site. Records from the case have been missing since 1987.
Bishop shot at her brother 3 times.
Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt.
Delahunt is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts.
Bishop’s mother was in politics on the town Board of Personnel in 1986 at the time of the shooting.
Yep, I would think discharging three times would be a clue.
Proving once again that guns kill.
Delahunt announced today that he's going to reopen the case and prosecute the shotgun and ammunition manufacturers.
She is a scientist, you see. After the first shot, she developed a theory as to why it may have occured. (Something related to the trigger.) She pointed the gun at her brother and ran an experiment to test the theory. A similar effect to the one she noted upon the first engaging of the trigger mechanism was noted. She performed one final test to validate the results of the previous test. Only then was she sure why the gun had gone off...
Me, too. William Delahunt placed that weapon in her hand twenty-three years ago. Without him, she would never have been in that room.
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