A female US teacher has shot dead three people and wounded three others after learning she had been denied tenure at a northern Alabama university, school officials and local media said. The incident happened at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Friday, and college spokesman Ray Garner told reporters that police had arrested one person and detained another.
"At this point we have three dead, three confirmed people who are dead," Garner said. The three slain faculty members were identified as G.K. Polia, Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. The injured victims were professor Joseph Leahy, professor's assistant Stephanie Monticello, and professor Luis Rogelio Cruz-Vera.
Local television, citing local authorities, said the shooter was a middle-aged female staff member identified as Doctor Amy Bishop, who had opened fire after learning at a biology faculty meeting that she would not be granted tenure. The professor has been taken into custody and that her husband has been detained.
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