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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is home to world-class space systems,

state-of-the-art engineering technologies, and cutting-edge science and research projects.

Visitors from all over come to the center not only to see the Space Shuttle Pathfinder, which is located there, but also to attend its world-famous space camp.

The University of Alabama at Huntsville, or UAH, is about six miles north of Marshall, and with its proximity to the Space Center attracts its fair share of science and technology students.

Teaching at the school science program is a choice job, and earning tenure there is very challenging.

And securing that prize was a reward that neurobiology professor Amy Bishop was desperate to achieve.

On February 12, 2010, the UAH Biology Department was having its routine 3PM meeting on the third floor of its Science and Technology Center.

45-year-old Amy, who had taught at the college since 2003, had finished teaching her morning classes and was attending the meeting before heading home.

As she sat next to the department chair, some of her coworkers noticed she seemed angry and brooding.

They were not surprised though, since Amy was recently denied her final appeal for tenure, and the agenda that day was focused on the next semester.

So really, she had no reason to be there. Her next move shocked everyone.

As the meeting drew to a close, Amy suddenly stood up, pulled a handgun out of her purse, and began to fire.

She started with those closest to her and went down the road, shooting her targets in the head, execution style.

Those not struck immediately dropped to the ground.

One professor threw her arms around Amy's legs and tried to reason with her, begging her to stop.

That woman considered herself a friend of Amy, but Amy took Amy and fired directly at her.

Fortunately, Amy's gun jammed, and the professor crawled past her out into the hallway.

Amy followed her, trying to fix the gun, and repeatedly squeezing the trigger. As soon as Amy was near the doorway, that professor shoved her into the hallway, allowing the others in the room to shut and lock the door, keeping Amy outside.

Six people were shot in less than a minute. Three of them were dead, and three were severely wounded.

Amy then went to the bathroom on the second floor and washed up, rinsing and throwing away the gun and her bloodstained blazer.

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