Amy Bishop Accused Of Killing 3, Wounding 3 Others
POSTED: 3:28 pm EST February 13,
2010
UPDATED: 9:31 pm EST February 13,
2010
Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier said Amy Bishop was detained
following the death of her brother on Dec. 6, 1986, then released
without being charged because the death was ruled an accidental
shooting.
Frazier said Amy Bishop shot her 18-year-old brother,
Seth Bishop, in the chest with a 12-gauge shotgun at the family’s home
in Braintree, then ran into the street and aimed the gun at a passing
vehicle before fleeing from the scene. Amy Bishop, who was 20 at the
time, was arrested at gunpoint by Braintree officers.
Bishop was
never booked, however, and all local police records of the case have
gone missing, with the exception of an entry in the
police log noting an accidental shooting, Frazier said.
"The report's gone, removed from the files," he said. "Somebody has it. We don't."The
police chief said Saturday that he planned to meet with the local
district attorney over the possibility of launching a criminal
investigation into how the Bishop case was handled.
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Polio told NewsCenter 5 he has no memory of telling officers to go
home. He said there was an inquest by Delahunt’s office and that the
district attorney found that the shooting did not warrant charges.
Polio said he doesn’t know how the records would have gone missing.
"Whatever
we had we gave to the DA. An inquiry was conducted and no complaint was
issued. So as far as I was concerned, that was the end of it," Polio
said in the phone interview. "As far I'm concerned, everything that was
done that should have been was done correctly. All reports went to the
DA, they called it. When people start making innuendos of a cover up or
this or that, it upsets me.”