2010 Murders in the United States - 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville Shooting, 2010 Las Vegas Courthouse Shooting (Paperback)

Chapters: 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville Shooting, 2010 Las Vegas Courthouse Shooting, 2010 Abb Plant Shootings, Murder of Chelsea King, 2010 Appomattox Shootings, 2010 Penske Shootings. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: At the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in Huntsville, Alabama three professors were killed and three other people wounded in a shooting on February 12, 2010. During the course of a routine Biology Department meeting attended by approximately 12 individuals, a professor stood up and began shooting those closest to her with a 9-millimeter handgun. Amy Bishop, the sole suspect and a biology professor, has been charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder; under Alabama state law, she could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted. Bishop had recently been denied tenure at the university and was beginning her last semester there per university policy. She previously drew the attention of law-enforcement officials in 1986 when she shot her brother to death in Braintree, Massachusetts in an incident officially ruled an accident. She, along with her husband, were questioned in a 1993 pipe-bomb incident directed towards her then lab supervisor. The day of the shooting, Bishop taught her anatomy and neurosciences class. According to a student in Bishop's class, she "seemed perfectly normal" during the lecture. She then attended a biology department faculty meeting in Room 369 on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology, which houses the UAH Biology and Mathematics departments. According to witnesses 12 or 13 people attended the meeting, which was described as "an ordinary faculty meeting. Bishop's behavior was also described as "normal" just prior to the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=26179977