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Oct 16, 2017 · Dr. Joseph Leahy, a University of Alabama in Huntsville biology professor who survived being shot in the head by Huntsville killer Amy Bishop, has died at age 58.
Oct 20, 2015 · Amy Bishop, the biology professor who pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding three others when she shot up a University of Alabama-Huntsville faculty meeting in 2010, has...
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Sep 27, 2012 · Former University of Alabama at Huntsville professor Amy Bishop was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on Monday after she pleaded guilty to capital murder in the shooting deaths of three people during a faculty meeting.
- The Shooting of Seth Bishop
- Amy Bishop: A Phd and University Career
- The University Mass Shooting
Amy Bishop grew up in Braintree, Massachusetts with her parents and younger brother Seth. By all accounts, the two children had a stable and loving upbringing and were close as siblings with a shared interest in music and science. One morning however in December 1986 when Amy was 21-years-old their lives would be changed forever. One year earlier t...
Amy Bishop was an intelligent and educated woman. She had no criminal record, no mental health problems, and no recent life events that could have caused this woman of science to crack. She was the last person anyone would expect to carry out a mass shooting. In the year leading up to the shooting, Amy Bishop’s behavior, however, had begun to raise...
On 12 February 2010, thirteen professors and staff members at the University of Alabama sat down in a department meeting to discuss ongoing work and plans for the following semester. Amy Bishop attended this meeting seating herself in front of the meeting room door and next to the chair of the meeting, plant biologist Gopi Podila. Much of the discu...
May 30, 2021 · Amy Bishop pleaded guilty to the Alabama murder charges, avoiding a trial and a possible death penalty. Now 56 years old, she lives at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama. Seth...
Sep 24, 2012 · A Harvard-educated biology professor was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday after being convicted of shooting colleagues at a faculty meeting, killing three and...
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During a routine meeting of the biology department attended by approximately 12 people, Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the university, began shooting those nearest her with a Ruger P95 handgun. Bishop was charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder.
