3 UAH campus police officers fired after controversial traffic stop involving Black teen Share Updated: 12:36 PM CST Jan 14, 2021 The Associated Press Share Updated: 12:36 PM CST Jan 14, 2021 The Associated Press The University of Alabama at Huntsville says three police officers were fired following a review of a traffic stop where a Black teen was asked if he had a dead prostitute in his car.On Tuesday, the school announced the termination of the former police chief, a captain and the officer involved in the October incident.A Facebook post from the teen s mother previously said her 17-year-old son was stopped by the officers for what was said to be a cracked tail light and one asked him several times if he had drugs or a dead prostitute in his car.The officers names weren t immediately released. Click here to read what UAH said about its UAHPD Action Plan on Wednesday.
a very horrific situation. these people, those actions should be commended as we work our way through this and what i m going to do now is to turn this over to chief henry rice to talk a little about the suspect s identity and the charges that we now have against them. good morning. on february 12th, 2010, dr. amy bishop-anderson, white female, 45, was attending a meeting at uah. dr. anderson allegedly produced a weapon and began shooting the attendees, three individuals were killed. marie davis, 50 of huntsville, adrian johnson, 52 of huntsville padilla, 52 of madison and we had three additional individuals that were shot and transported to the hospital. dr. joseph leahy, 50 of madison, stephanie mon cello, 62 of huntsville and louise
again, we should think all the law enforcement agencies that responded to a very quick effort. brian: we are going to back out of this press conference, it does continue on foxnews.com, streaming from huntsville, alabama. we do have a reporter on the scene who will be monitoring the rest of this press conference and we ll come back to us later in the hour with more details of what we ve learned, but we do have confirmation that the person who has been charged is an amy bishop anderson. she s been charged one count of capital murder. three people dead, three people sent to the hospital in a tragic shooting yesterday afternoon at the university of alabama, huntsville. we ll continue to watch that story and move on to some other big stories that we need to tell you about because right now in southern afghanistan a major offensive is underway to drive out the taliban. early this morning, u.s.-led n.a.t.o. forces and afghan soldiers stormed the town of marja by air and ground and mike ema
penalty and also said during the conference that further charges are pending. you asked earlier what possibly could have driven her to do this? what we re learning it may be a tenure issue. a fellow faculty member was granted the status, and bishop was not, she s been vying for more than a year now. something i want to ad, brian, there s another man detained, a person of interest, but no charges at this time, brian. brian: elizabeth, thank you for that update from huntsville. officials by the way are hoping the public can help them solve a string of church fires in east texas. investigators released sketches yesterday of three men, they are calling people of interest. laura ingle joins us from new york where she s been following that story, hello, laura. hi, brian, well, all three of the young men depicted in the sketches we re about to show you have been identified as people hanging around the scene of several of the church fires, it s important to note they are not suspects, but
killed three in a staff meeting and three others were injured. let s go live to the scene in huntsville, elizabeth, tell us about the alleged shooter and what could have possibly driven her to do this crime? right, like you said, 42-year-old amy bishop is the suspect, but local reports, deem her as a research star, a harvard graduate as well as a local biology assistant professor here, but we re learning today that she may be responsible for shooting here at a faculty meeting around 4 p.m. yesterday whereas you mentioned six people were shot and three died, three in the hospital and we have press conference about an hour ago where we learned she s been charged with one count of capital murder which means in the stay of alabama she is eligible for the death penalty. now, we also learned during that press conference that further charges are pending. now, you asked, what possibly could have driven her to do something like this, so we re learning that it may be a tenure issue. a fellow f