Huntsville, AL – An Alabama university president says there were no red flags when the school hired a professor now charged with shooting three colleagues to death.
University of Alabama in Huntsville President David Williams told The Associated Press on Tuesday that a review of biology professor Amy Bishop's personnel file and her hiring file showed nothing of a criminal nature.
Bishop shot her brother to death in 1986 but was not charged because the killing was ruled accidental. She and husband James Anderson were later investigated in a pipe bomb mailing in Massachusetts, but were never charged.
Williams said a criminal background check was conducted after Friday's deadly shooting and none of the previous cases showed up.
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