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Welcome back to the True Crime Fan Club podcast.

I'm your host, Laney.

Males primarily carry out mass shootings while females account for 4% of mass shootings

in the United States.

Overall, women are less likely to commit homicide, with 10 to 13% of homicides in the US carried

out by females.

Men are also less likely to use firearms to carry out their homicidal impulses, with

only 8% of firearm homicides committed by them.

Today's focus is about a woman who broke the norms in every way.

OK, on to the show.

It began like any other faculty meeting.

It was 3 o'clock PM on February 12, 2010.

Faculty and staff from the University of Alabama and Huntsville's Biology Department had

just filed into the small, windowless conference room in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.

The department chair distributed printed agendas, and the meeting began.

After about 50 minutes, the meeting drew to a close and Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist

at the University, stood and withdrew a 9-millimeter ruger from her purse.

She turned and shot Gopi Padala, the department chair in the head.

The other individuals in the room sat in shock for seconds that stretched out like eternity,

while Amy pointed the gun at Stephanie Montecolo, a department assistant.

The bullet found its mark, and Amy shot another individual, Adriel Johnson, a cell biologist.

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