Thaindian News

April 13, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Amy Bishop, the solitary suspect in the liquidation of three professors at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in February 2010, will be encountering another investigation. But this investigation has nothing to do with the university shootout. This investigation goes back to her brother’s shooting-related death in 1986 in Massachusetts. The case, which was declared as an accident, has been reopened.

A Massachusetts district attorney recently commanded the inquest into whether Bishop calculatedly shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth, at their dwelling in Braintree, 24 years ago. The judge’s report could be utilized by the prosecutors to pursue a murder indictment against Bishop.

Norfolk District Attorney, William Keating, called for the probe after Bishop was arrested in February and charged with fatally shooting three of her colleagues at the school. Then, new particulars came into view about her brother’s 1986 shooting in Braintree.

The inquest will be conducted by Judge Mark Coven behind closed doors in Quincy District Court, south of Boston. Prosecutors, who handled the 1986 investigation, said that they were not told certain facts about the death of Seth Bishop. It seems that, after Seth Bishop was shot at the family home, Amy held workers at a local car dealership at gunpoint and demanded a getaway car. She also supposedly refused, in the beginning, to drop the shotgun used to kill her brother when the police confronted her.

If Coven decides that Amy Bishop deliberately killed her brother, the judge could advocate that she be charged with homicide.