Shooting at Univ. Alabama Huntsville (merged thread folds in Parents Cafe comments)

<p>I imagine that colleges across this country are going to rethink how they deliver “bad news” such as not getting tenure.</p>

<p>In hindsight, she should not have been told in the morning - especially since she would know that there would be an afternoon meeting where the faculty would be there like sitting ducks. </p>

<p>While it’s impossible to prevent such things 100%, it would have been better if she had been told Friday evening which would have given her the weekend to calm down. Even if she had shown up angry on Monday, there wouldn’t have been a staff meeting where she could target so many people all at once.</p>

<p>Oh…BTW…when she was put in the police car…she went into total denial. “No one is dead. The shooting never happened.” Sounds like kind of the mantra she played in her head after her brother was shot…total denial of guilt.</p>

<p>Thank goodness her kids are safe and away from her.</p>

<p>That is so creepy. She looks deranged. Why violence? </p>

<p>@mom2collegekids</p>

<p>We learn from our mistakes after we make them, unfortunately. Its really unfair and unprofessional- she took it way too personally. I feel horrible for the people who were killed. And I thought at first it had to be student- I guess our assumptions aren’t fool-proof.</p>

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I don’t know what kind of school UA is; I just know that they have some generous OOS scholarships.*</p>

<p>The University of Alabama is not UAHuntsville.</p>

<p>UAHunstville is about 150 miles away from UAlabama. UAHuntsville is by the Tenn border.</p>

<p>UAH is not a satellite of UA.</p>

<p>Thinking that they’re the same schools is like thinking that UC Santa Cruz is the same school as UC Irvine. The schools are totally separate schools with their own sports teams and names that are part of a state system. They are not like the Penn State system.</p>

<p>That said, this event has been very upsetting because of the deaths and injuries. My friend’s husband was shot in the neck and is in critical condition after surgery to remove the bullet. UAH is just a few miles from my home. Tomorrow is a memorial service on campus.</p>

<p>The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office released its 1987 report of the incident Saturday night.</p>

<p><a href=“http://wbztv.com/local/amy.bishop.braintree.2.1492964.html[/url]”>CBS Boston - Breaking News, Sports, Weather, I-Team Investigations;

<p>Page 5</p>

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport5.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport5.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The report they said was missing? This gets more and more bizarre.</p>

<p>Might be a different report.</p>

<p>Supposedly the reports surrounding the brother’s shooting are missing. That doesn’t surprise me. It’s hard to claim that 3 shots in the house were accidental upon further review.</p>

<p>The story from the former police chief:</p>

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<p>The report released tonight is the DA’s office’s report, not the original police report.</p>

<p>I agree that she looks a bit odd. </p>

<p>My friend’s H is in critical condition. We first thought he was shot in the chest, but he was shot in the neck. I’m not sure where he was sitting in relationship to Amy in the room. I don’t know if those sitting closest to her were the ones that died.</p>

<p>I know that someone tried to stop her (don’t know yet if it was someone who was killed.) After she left the room, they did something with the door to prevent her from coming back in ( I think I was told that they put something heavy - maybe the table - in front of the door.)</p>

<p>I don’t think the former police chief is believable. I think he’s part of the cover-up.</p>

<p>She might be schizophrenic- maybe?</p>

<p>I just read the report from the DA’s office. It’s 6 separate pages, each of which is a pdf. I don’t know what to think now, because I have no idea if the story that Amy Bishop and her mother told makes sense in terms of how shotguns operate.</p>

<p>It also sounds rather odd that Amy Bishop claimed she remembered nothing from the time she ran out of the house until she was at the police station, and also had no idea that she was carrying the gun with her when she ran.</p>

<p>The father wasn’t in the house at the time.</p>

<p>Whether it was accidental or not, what happened, both then and now, is all just so horribly sad.</p>

<p>These are the links to the report:</p>

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport1.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport2.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport3.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport3.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport4.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport4.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport5.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport5.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport6.pdf[/url]”>http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2010/February/BishopReport6.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Amy Bishop was 20 years old at the time she killed her brother! Those reports sound like she was a 12 year old girl. The account seems to have been cooked up by the family while they were “recovering” before being questioned by police.</p>

<p>One would think that after accidentally blasting a hole in her bedroom wall, she would have dropped the gun and that her mother would have been screaming at her, not in the kitchen doing whatever!</p>

<p>To play devil’s advocate, if she did it on purpose out of anger, why would she have fired it in the bedroom first, before going downstairs to shoot her brother?</p>

<p>[Pump-action</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump-action]Pump-action”>Pump action - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>I tried to explain it, but if you’ve never used a pump shotgun, you can’t grasp how silly this story sounds.</p>

<p>How do we know in which order she fired the bullets? The whole thing stinks…</p>

<p>Besides…how come she wasn’t too upset to continue with her studies? </p>

<p>If I had accidentally killed my sibling, I would be too distraught to go on with my studies for a very long time.</p>

<p>I have used a pump action shotgun…there’s no way she could accidentally fire it 3 times or even twice.</p>

<p>I cried the first time I fired a shotgun…it’s very overwhelming…</p>

<p>On the lower tube, beneath the barrel, the wooden piece is grasped by your hand and pumped downward, then back up to where it is shown in the photo in the wiki link above. You can’t do that by accident. And certainly not three times.</p>