Four people are dead and two others injured, after a woman opened fire in an apartment building, and then in a hospital in south-western Germany last night, before police shot her dead in a hail of bullets.

There was a ‘loud explosion’ around 6pm local time at a nearby apartment block in which the bodies of a man and a child were found. “We were playing with the children in the garden when there was a huge explosion that shook the house,’ said Ayed Centinier, who lives in the apartment block next door. “Firefighters were called out to an explosion at an apartment in a street near the hospital. Soon afterward, firefighters found two bodies in the apartment.” It was unclear what the relationship was between the gunwoman and the man and child who were killed in the apartment. They are believed to have been shot but investigators are awaiting confirmation from a post-mortem examination. A woman, allegedly armed with a weapon, was seen running from the scene of the blast into the neighboring St Elisabeth hospital.

The female killer then moved through wards at the hospital, shooting at staff and patients with a sub-machine gun. Police said two people were killed inside the hospital and that a police officer was seriously wounded. Investigators said they were relieved that no one else was hurt during the shoot-out in the hospital. “There was a very heavy exchange of gunfire in the hospital that had the potential to be very dangerous, but based on what we know right now … no one else was injured,” said a state prosecutor, Dieter Inhofer. The woman was killed in the exchange of gunfire shortly after she started shooting.

The police said the woman opened fire in the gynecology unit of the hospital and according to local reports managed to fire off several rounds during the incident. A motive for the shooting has not yet been established but at a news conference, German prosecutors said a domestic dispute may have triggered the shooting.

-articles by Tony Paterson and Jo Adetunji rewritten and adapted by admin-

Dr Amy Bishop Anderson, now 42, a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is accused of fatally shooting three colleagues and injuring three others at a faculty meeting on Friday. Police Department recalled that Amy Bishop had murdered her 18 year old brother, Seth back in 1986, but it was ruled out as an “accident”.

The 40-year-old, Harvard-educated geneticist and her husband, Jim Anderson, are credited with inventing a mobile cell incubation system touted as a replacement for the old-fashioned petri dish: “She was just really passionate about what she was doing, and very energetic,” Stuart Obermann, a former board member of the BizTech technology incubator, said of Bishop. “I’m really quite shocked.”

Three biology faculty members were shot to death in a third floor conference room and three others were wounded, when Anderson began shooting for no apparent reason. Huntsville police spokesman Sgt. Mark Roberts said Bishop was charged Saturday morning with one count of capital murder. She was taken Friday night in handcuffs from a police precinct to the county jail and could be heard telling TV reporters, “It didn’t happen. There’s no way …. they are still alive.”

Nearly 25 years ago she “accidentally” killed her 18 years old brother. By her account, Amy decided at this time “that it would be a good idea if she learned how to load the shotgun in the house.” She suggested she had been concerned about her safety due to a break-in the year before. “Amy said that she was carrying the gun pointed beside her leg and that Seth told her to point the gun up,” the report says. “Amy had the gun in one hand and started to raise it. Amy further states that someone said something to her and she turned and the gun went off.” That being the second time a weapon that fires only when the trigger is pulled just “went off.” The report declared the shooting accidental “due to the testimony of the members of the Bishop family.” The case was closed.

Now a cover up is being investigated, because the police records have turned up missing in the Bishop murder case. The former police chief denies any cover up and doesn’t know why the case would go missing.

Also, back in 1993 Dr. Amy Bishop Anderson was accused of mailing a bomb to a professor that she was angry with. So loved ones of the victims are now left wondering why Professor Amy Bishop Anderson was even hired by UAH because of her criminal background even if she was not charged in the cases. She was obviously unstable, but it took three lives, maybe even four if we include her brother, to finally arrest her.

Here is a video on the former police chief speaking out on why the records of the shooting were gone and also on the mail bombing.

And another video on the present Braintree police chief making a statement on the 1986 shooting of Bishop’s brother.

-articles by Bella Rose and Victoria Cumbow rewritten and adapted by admin-