'I LOVE HER': Hubby Defends Alleged University Shooter to the Last

Alabama Shooting Suspect's Husband: 'I'm No Psychologist'

Husband Anderson Says He and Bishop Went to Firing Range Before Campus Killings, But Don't Own a Gun

By ANDREA CANNING, MICHELE McPHEE, SARAH NETTER and SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Feb. 15, 2010

James Anderson, whose wife Amy Bishop has been accused of the killing rampage at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, has a message for his wife: "I love her."

James Anderson says he's "caving in" over Amy Bishop's link to the shooting.

"She's barely holding up," he told ABC affiliate WCVB-TV in Boston today. "Nobody understands what happened. Nobody knew. Sit down and talk to her about what went wrong."
Anderson said he didn't believe his wife -- a brilliant scientist who colleagues said had been upset about not receiving tenure -- was capable of finding out who her alleged victims were for retribution.
And when asked why she might have killed, if she did, he said, "I am not a psychologist.
Meanwhile, Anderson told The Associated Press that he and Bishop went to a shooting range just weeks before the killing, but said the family did not own a gun.
He said he is still baffled about where she may have gotten the gun she is accused of using.
"I feel for all these people," he told ABC. "I wish it had never came to this. She was loved and respected by everyone, students and assistants. All the nursing students liked and loved her."
Bishop, 42, has been arrested and charged in the shooting deaths of three professors and the wounding of three others Friday at a faculty meeting. She could face the death penalty.
Anderson told the Chronicle of Higher Education that his wife had called from jail and said, "I know you guys are obviously in shock," and asked if their four children had done their homework.
Before the shootings, he said, his wife had said nothing and he assumed their Friday "date night" was still on.
But a former colleague of Bishop's has described her as "an oddball."
Sylvia Fluckiger, a lab technician who worked with Bishop at Children's Hospital in Boston, said her colleague was "socially a little awkward," according to the Boston Globe.
Fluckiger and her husband Rudolph worked together at Children's Hospital in the early 1990s where he was a researcher. Bishop helped Rudolph Fluckiger write a research paper as a medical student.
More recently, some of Bishop's students had mostly praise for the biology professor at the University of Alabama. They gave her an overall 3.6 rating out of 5 on RateMyProfessors.com.
She was "absolutely the bomb! Knows her stuff cold, and quick-witted, too."


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