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Amy Bishop

Also known as: UAH shooting, University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting

Active
2010–2010
Region
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
State
AL
Kind
Mass
Status
Pleaded guilty
Victims
3

On February 12, 2010, Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who had been denied tenure, opened fire at a biology department faculty meeting in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology. She killed three colleagues, Gopi Podila, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson, and wounded three others. She was arrested outside the building minutes later. In September 2012 she pleaded guilty to capital murder and three counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to life without parole.

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Timeline of locations

  1. February 12, 2010
    Shelby Center for Science and Technology, UAH (Crime scene)

    Bishop opened fire at a biology department faculty meeting in a third-floor room at about 4 p.m., killing three colleagues and wounding three other people.

  2. February 12, 2010
    Arrest outside the Shelby Center (Arrest)

    Bishop was arrested outside the science building minutes after the shooting. The pistol was found in a second-floor bathroom.

  3. 2012
    Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, Wetumpka (Prison)

    Bishop is serving life without parole at Tutwiler, Alabama's prison for women.

  4. September 11, 2012
    Madison County Circuit Court, Huntsville (Court / trial, approximate area)

    Bishop pleaded guilty on September 11, 2012. After a brief jury hearing required in Alabama capital cases, Circuit Judge Alan Mann sentenced her on September 24 to life without parole.

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Watch

  • Snapped: Amy Bishop (season 10, episode 4) (series, Oxygen)

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