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This is very indicative of how messed up our system has become, we have Greg Girard who has committed no crime in jail being held without bail, meanwhile, this women is free to continue killing at will.
Outrage is boiling over in Alabama at Massachusetts authorities for failing to corral alleged spree killer Amy Bishop 24 years ago when the Braintree woman shot and killed her brother.
“We’re very angry,” said Jennifer Davis, whose brother-in-law’s wife, Maria Ragland Davis, was one of three killed in Friday’s massacre at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “(Bishop) took someone’s life. If (Massachusetts officials) knew she had problems, maybe they could have done something. Look how many lives were taken.”
Jennifer Davis recalled Maria Davis as a “good stepmother” and “sweet wife” who helped Davis’ brother-in-law raise his three kids after his first wife died.
Bishop, 44, shot and killed her brother, Seth, in Braintree in 1986 but was never charged. She also wasn’t charged with menacing two people with a shotgun in Braintree after the shooting, an allegation noted in Braintree police reports that were apparently never shared with state police or the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.
“It sounds like your citizens are as upset about it as ours are down here,” Huntsville police Sgt. Mark Roberts said. “If (Massachusetts authorities) had done what they were supposed to in the beginning, this might not have happened.”
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who was Norfolk district attorney at the time, ruled the shooting of Bishop’s brother accidental. But in recent days, authorities unearthed a now-deceased captain’s file in the Braintree police station that contained crucial information. Delahunt is in Israel but will review the explosive case when he returns this weekend, a spokesman said.
“There was information that was not made available to the state police and the District Attorney’s Office that was very significant,” Delahunt spokesman Mark Forest said. “These are very serious questions that need to be addressed.”
And more details were revealed yesterday, including that a Massachusetts judge ignored prosecutors and refused to order Bishop into anger management in 2002 after she admitted to striking a fellow mom in the head in a Peabody pancake house flap over a kids’ booster seat.
Judge Robert Ronquillo Jr. said through a spokesman yesterday he “gave the appropriate disposition based on the facts presented to him at the time.”
Those facts included an International House of Pancakes manager telling Peabody police a profanity-spewing Bishop “was acting like a crazy person.”
Ronquillo continued the case without a finding for six months, after which the charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct were broomed from her criminal record.
Bishop is charged with killing three colleagues at UAH and wounding three others in a rampage possibly sparked by the school’s refusal to grant her tenure. Her lawyer, Roy Miller, did not return calls seeking comment.
This is very indicative of how messed up our system has become, we have Greg Girard who has committed no crime in jail being held without bail, meanwhile, this women is free to continue killing at will.
Outrage is boiling over in Alabama at Massachusetts authorities for failing to corral alleged spree killer Amy Bishop 24 years ago when the Braintree woman shot and killed her brother.
“We’re very angry,” said Jennifer Davis, whose brother-in-law’s wife, Maria Ragland Davis, was one of three killed in Friday’s massacre at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “(Bishop) took someone’s life. If (Massachusetts officials) knew she had problems, maybe they could have done something. Look how many lives were taken.”
Jennifer Davis recalled Maria Davis as a “good stepmother” and “sweet wife” who helped Davis’ brother-in-law raise his three kids after his first wife died.
Bishop, 44, shot and killed her brother, Seth, in Braintree in 1986 but was never charged. She also wasn’t charged with menacing two people with a shotgun in Braintree after the shooting, an allegation noted in Braintree police reports that were apparently never shared with state police or the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.
“It sounds like your citizens are as upset about it as ours are down here,” Huntsville police Sgt. Mark Roberts said. “If (Massachusetts authorities) had done what they were supposed to in the beginning, this might not have happened.”
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who was Norfolk district attorney at the time, ruled the shooting of Bishop’s brother accidental. But in recent days, authorities unearthed a now-deceased captain’s file in the Braintree police station that contained crucial information. Delahunt is in Israel but will review the explosive case when he returns this weekend, a spokesman said.
“There was information that was not made available to the state police and the District Attorney’s Office that was very significant,” Delahunt spokesman Mark Forest said. “These are very serious questions that need to be addressed.”
And more details were revealed yesterday, including that a Massachusetts judge ignored prosecutors and refused to order Bishop into anger management in 2002 after she admitted to striking a fellow mom in the head in a Peabody pancake house flap over a kids’ booster seat.
Judge Robert Ronquillo Jr. said through a spokesman yesterday he “gave the appropriate disposition based on the facts presented to him at the time.”
Those facts included an International House of Pancakes manager telling Peabody police a profanity-spewing Bishop “was acting like a crazy person.”
Ronquillo continued the case without a finding for six months, after which the charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct were broomed from her criminal record.
Bishop is charged with killing three colleagues at UAH and wounding three others in a rampage possibly sparked by the school’s refusal to grant her tenure. Her lawyer, Roy Miller, did not return calls seeking comment.
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