Charges considered in Bishop case Grand jury hears new evidence in 1986 shooting of her brother

Nearly 24 years after the Bishop Amy was fatally shot her brother, 18 years) at home Braintree in what was then declared an accident, and prosecutors and to present evidence to a grand jury that will decide whether to bring criminal charges in the case, according to many people who participated in the investigation.

Decision taken by the Norfolk County Prosecutor William R.. Keating to take the case to the grand jury are signs that the judicial investigation, which ended recently, and issued a report sealed to the Attorney General, I found there was sufficient evidence to justify the potential that the charges against Bishop, now 45.

Familiar with the investigation being pursued did not say what the charge. But murder is the only official statute of limitations had not run out.

Keating would not comment yesterday on his decision to convene a grand jury to reconsider was killed in 1986, the Braintree police, State Police and Norfolk County Attorney at the time and concluded that the family was a tragic accident. But all that changed when a bishop, a university professor, allegedly went on a shooting rampage in February at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, killing three of his colleagues and wounded three others after they denied tenure.

The mother of a bishop, Judith, who said the contracts of police since she was in the room when her daughter 21 years), accidentally shot her son, aged 18 years, Seth, with a shotgun, and the Globe last night: "I 'm not feeling well. My husband is not well. I do not know how I can face anything of this ».

She declined to answer any questions about the investigation of the grand jury, saying: "I can not speak with you. I'm sorry».

A Huntsville (Alabama, attorney Roy W. Miller, who represents the bishop in the fire there, and he can not talk about the proceedings of the grand jury in Massachusetts because it is by order of the deployment ban in the state of Alabama. But, he said: "I do not surprise me." We have nocontrol of both what they are doing there. We just have to live with what they are doing there.''

The former police chief, John F.. Braintree polio, who ran the department when he was killed her brother, Bishop, and he received a summons to testify before the grand jury in the Supreme Court in Norfolk Dedham on Thursday.

He said that "a good step« for Keating to call a grand jury to determine whether you must provide any criminal charges.

"I think from the point of realization of the right and clear they want the air to determine whether Amy Bishop did not kill her brother or unintentionally, who knows, and the possibility it was more than just an accident», said in a telephone polio interview yesterday. "It's a question thatmust be answered or at least attempt to answer, does not mean they'll get an answer from ever .'''' continue.