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U of A Shooting over Shadowed by Death of Georgian Luger

A woman opened fire during a meeting of teaching staff at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus Friday, killing three faculty members and wounding three others yet nearly 90% of Americans have no idea that this happened, due to NBC’s wall to wall coverage of the death of 21 year old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.

WAAF, the NBC affiliate in Huntsville, reported that the shooter was a female faculty member who learned during a biology tenure meeting that she wouldn’t receive tenure, and pulled out a gun and started shooting.

Mr. Garner said no students were involved.

The Huntsville Times reported that Amy Bishop, a Harvard University-trained neuroscientist was taken into custody without a struggle, and that her husband was also detained. They haven’t been charged with a crime. The Huntsville police wouldn’t name the people in custody.

A picture on the Huntsville Times Web site showed a woman dressed in jeans and a pink sweater and identified as Ms. Bishop being taken into police custody.

University officials called the shooting “a tragic event” during a news conference at the campus.

The three wounded included two faculty members and one staff person, Mr. Garner said. Two of the wounded were in critical condition, and one in serious condition at Huntsville Hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

Where is the media coverage?  All eyes on the Olympics.  An athlete has somehow garnered more sympathy from the public than 3 dead Americans in a senseless shooting at a University.  Let’s all take a moment of silence for these three innocent people.

The shooting comes just a week after a student was killed by another student at a Huntsville middle school, but you probably didn’t hear about that either.