Breaking News: UAH - Biology Professor Dr. Amy Bishop Opens Fire on Staff Meeting Killing 3 Professors

UAH, University of Alabama - Huntsville campus shooting, which left 3 professors dead, was done by one of its own professors. The motive was being turned down for tenure. Dr. Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the college is being held as the person responsible for the shootings that left 3 dead and others wounded, two being critical.

No students were victims of the shootings, it appears that it was just the faculty that was targeted. The shooting happened just around 4pm Friday at the Shelby Center Science Building on the campus.

This bazaar shooting occurred at a meeting of the Biology Department. Dr. Amy Bishop opened fire with a hand gun at the professors attending the meeting.

Along with apprehending Dr. Amy Bishop, her husband, Jim Anderson is also being held. There has been no word on what Bishop's husband's role was in this tragedy, if any at all.

Dr. Amy Bishop and her husband, Jim Anderson, invented a portable cell incubator and they won an award for it at a competition on the state level. They won $25,000 as a prize to go towards developing the incubator for sales.

Dr. Amy Bishop has been on staff at UAH since 2003. She was a Harvard graduate. The Huntsville campus consists of about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line.

UAH websites has put a message up on their website reporting that there has been a shooting at the school and the shooter has been apprehended. They also confirm that there were no students involved in the shooting. It also tells everyone that classes have been canceled for Friday with more information to come. They offer counseling to anyone who made feel they need it and gives the room numbers the counselors will be set up in.

Later at a press conference, UAH's administration gave an announcement that for the week of February 15- 19 classes and events have been canceled.

Shootings at schools and on college campus's have sadly become not a rare story, but a college professor pulling the trigger on her peers is not a story we have heard before. What could possibly break a woman to this point? It is reported she was upset because she did not get tenure, but a Harvard educated PhD would be someone you would expect to handle being passed by staying in control. This is truly a tragedy.

Did Dr. Amy Bishop target the staff she felt played the biggest part in her not receiving her tenure position? Was her husband involved in any way? These questions and many more will come out of the inquirers that will be going on within the next few days.

Reference: Fox News