HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A University of Alabama-Huntsville professor opened fire during a faculty meeting Friday and shot six of her colleagues, killing at least three, police said.
The university identified the alleged shooter as Amy Bishop, a neuroscientist trained at Harvard, the Huntsville Times reported. She and her husband, Jim Anderson, chief science officer of Cherokee Labsystems, in Huntsville, were both in custody but had not been formally charged, police said.
All the dead were also members of the faculty, police said. They were in a meeting of the biology faculty at the Shelby Center for Science and Technology that began at about 4 p.m. EST.
WHNT-TV in Huntsville said Bishop had learned Friday she was being denied tenure.
In 2006, the Times published a story identifying Bishop as one of the inventors of InQ, a cell incubator that had the potential to cut the cost of new cell generation.
Three people were taken to Huntsville Hospital, where two of them were listed in critical condition and one was said to be stable, a hospital spokesman told WHNT.
The school has been closed until further notice, authorities said. University officials said counselors would be available for students.
