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Defend America on Monday, February 15, 2010 2:06:03 PM
‘Oddball’ portrait of Amy Bishop emerges
Suspect’s family, pals offer clues
By Laurel J. Sweet, Jessica Van Sack, Jessica Fargen and Ira Kantor
Monday, February 15, 2010 -
Updated 2h ago
As authorities searched for clues
into what could have sent a University of Alabama neurobiology
professor on an alleged killing spree, friends and family yesterday
described Braintree native Amy Bishop as an awkward introvert on the
brink of losing her teaching job.
Bishop’s husband, James Anderson, told the Herald his wife had been
fighting the university for over a year about a tenure denial, and
several months ago received a final decision. She was upset, but not
overly emotional, approaching her appeal “like a game of chess,” he
said.
Police in Huntsville, Ala., charged Bishop, 44, with capital murder
after she allegedly opened fire on six colleagues at a faculty meeting
Friday, killing three. Afterward, she calmly called her husband and
asked him to pick her up as if nothing had happened, said police Chief
Henry Reyes.
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A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a
third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed”
with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.