Amy Bishop University of Alabama professor charged with murder. Friday, at the University of Alabama Amy Bishop allegedly opened fire during a faculty meeting and three people died and three were wounded. Friday night, Amy Bishop was charged with one count of capital murder.
Bishop, 42, is a biology professor at the University of Alabama, and it was three of her colleagues, also biology professors who were killed, the other three who were wounded university employees.
The three people killed were Gopi K Podila, the chair of the biological sciences department, and two other faculty members, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson.
Sammie Lee Davis, Davis' husband said that the meeting was to discuss tenure for Bishop. She was assistant professor since 2003. Sammie Lee Davis said his wife had mentioned Bishop before and said that she was described as "not being able to deal with reality" and "not as good as she thought she was".
As police took Bishop away in handcuffs she was heard saying, "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."
The three wounded university employees were Luis Cruz-Vera, who was listed in fair condition, Joseph Leahy, who was listed in critical condition in intensive care, and Stephanie Monticello, who was also listed in critical condition in intensive care.
Former students described Bishop as “weird,” a “nerd,” and a “genius, but she really can’t explain things.”
In 2007, Sulejman Talovic began a 3 hours deadly shooting spree in the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City which resulted in the deaths of five people. An off duty cop from Ogden happened to be in the mall having dinner and was able to help police. After the shooting, it was determine that Talovic committed the shooting for religious reasons.
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Comments
Such a terrible tragedy. Perhaps this woman professor was taking an antidepressant.
The Physicians Desk Reference states that SSRI antidepressants and all antidepressants can cause mania, psychosis, abnormal thinking, paranoia, hostility, etc. These side effects can also appear during withdrawal. Also, these adverse reactions are not listed as Rare but are listed as either Frequent or Infrequent.
Go to www.SSRIstories.com where there are over 3,600 cases, with the full media article available, involving bizarre murders, suicides, school shootings/incidents [53 of these] and murder-suicides - all of which involve SSRI antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc, . The media article usually tells which SSRI antidepressant the perpetrator was taking or had been using.
And perhaps Rosiecee is an idiot for using this event to launch into a rant about antidepressants!
Agreed.
Rosiecee, for every crime that is committed possibly in relation to an SSRI, there are many more who might have had a manic or psychotic episode were they not taking psychotropic medication.
If it were really an issue, the FDA would have banned the drugs.
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