Obama Supporter Amy Bishop's Earlier Killing To Be Reinvestigated

Amy Bishop has a history of killing people. She killed her brother in 1986. But her politically connected mother convinced the district attorney to quash the investigation and Amy dearest walked. That district attorney in now a congressman, William Delahunt (D) of Massachusetts. And now,that earlier killing is being re-investigated. No wonder Delahunt is pondering retirement.

A Massachusetts prosecutor ordered an inquest Thursday into the fatal shooting of Amy Bishop’s brother, saying there are new questions about whether it was the accident that investigators concluded at the time.

The handling of the case has been under scrutiny since Dr. Bishop, a neuroscientist, was accused of killing three faculty colleagues on Feb. 12 in a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

In announcing the inquest, William R. Keating, the Norfolk district attorney, revealed that investigators recently examined a photograph taken of Dr. Bishop’s bedroom shortly after her brother’s death in 1986 and enlarged it. They found a newspaper article that described someone killing a relative with a shotgun and then stealing a getaway car from a car dealership.

Dr. Bishop, then 21, shot and killed her brother, Seth, 18, with her father’s 12-gauge shotgun at their Braintree home. She then went to a car dealership and tried to commandeer a car, the police said. After her arrest, she told the police that the weapon had accidentally discharged.

I find it interesting that nowhere in the New York Times story does the name of that earlier district attorney appear.