Bishop update: She shot at her brother three times, federal DA to open probe of pipe-bomb investigation

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2010-02-26 05:47

Seems she wasn't just learning to clean the trusty old family shotgun after all (which we already knew). Read more here. Excerpt:

'Amy Bishop shot her teenage brother in the chest in 1986, Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier said at a news conference. Bishop fired at least three shots, hitting her brother in the chest, and then fled with the shotgun before police took her into custody at gunpoint, he said.

Before Bishop, who was 19 at the time, could be booked the police chief back then called officers and told them to release her to her mother, Frazier said. The shooting of the brother, Seth Bishop, an 18-year-old accomplished violinist, was logged that day as a "sudden death" and later considered accidental, but detailed records of the shooting have disappeared, Frazier said.'

You may want to read about how she had to be tracked down and placed in a two-target situation before she would surrender to the police. It's here. She was not a distraught newbie with a gun who just accidentally shot (thricely firing upon) her beloved brother. She was a shooter hiding out from the cops behind cover waiting for her chance to get away, with ammunition ready no less.

Also, a US attorney will investigate her own office's investigation into the 1993 pipe-bomb case as well. Aside from the fact that the current US attorney is different from the one holding that office in 1993, I have to ask myself, just how objective would such a review be? Well, it may be something. We'll have to see. Story here. Excerpt:

'The state's top federal prosecutor announced today that her office will review its investigation of the December 1993 attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor, now that a woman once considered a suspect in the case is accused of killing three people during a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who was appointed to her post in November, said today in a statement that she has ordered a review to make sure that "all appropriate steps'' were taken at the time of the original investigation.'

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What's with the old coverage from more then a week ago, and nothing new that has not already made it onto MANN and been discussed?

We already knew she fired three times in 1896, we already knew she held up the car lot and assaulted the man behind the counter with the gun, we already knew she was armed and loaded when the police finally caught up with her.

Yes, she is as pure an example of a methodical psychopathic killer as you will ever find regardless of gender.

she will forever live as the shining example MRAs use when people talk about male disposition for violence as well as how women are treated harshly before the law.

the next big announcement won't come until the DA announces whether or not he is seeking the death penalty when this case goes to trial.

I agree with one of the commenters in the linked story that it is strange that she was able to get a tax payer funded lawyer given that she is a woman of significant assets and her husband, and family have wealth as well. Odd indeed.

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Submitted by Paragon on Fri, 2010-02-26 06:25