--- description: Amy Bishop has apologized for the first time. The biology professor killed three colleagues at University of Alabama-Huntsville in 2010. title: Alabama University Killer Apologizes for the First Time image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69588d4a1dc9e573/698868f6ab6d777e426a6be7/ap_700198571729.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [alabama](/tag/alabama/) ## alabama Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # After Five Years, Alabama University Killer Apologizes for the First Time by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 20, 2015 3:41 AM CUT  Amy Bishop is escorted by sheriff's deputies at the Madison County Courthouse in Hunstville, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 Amy Bishop is escorted by sheriff's deputies at the Madison County Courthouse in Hunstville, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012Michael Mercier—AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 20, 2015 3:41 AM CUT Amy Bishop, the biology professor who pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding three others when she shot up a University of Alabama-Huntsville faculty meeting in 2010, has apologized for the first time. Bishop, 50, who’d been denied tenure, was sentenced to life in prison in exchange for her guilty plea, but since then, she has launched several appeals claiming she was mentally ill and didn’t know what she was doing. In a new 50-page court filing obtained Monday by [NBC station WAFF](http://www.waff.com/story/30299020/first-apology-from-uah-shooter-i-am-terribly-sorry-for-the-victims-and-their-families "undefined") of Huntsville and [The Huntsville Times](http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/10/amy%5Fbishop%5Fi%5Fam%5Fterribly%5Fsorry.html "undefined"), Bishop included a handwritten note referring to the shootings as… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News._](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/after-5-years-alabama-university-killer-apologizes-first-time-n447481?cid=par-time%5F20151020 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4079236/alabama-shooting-gun-violence-apology/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4079236/alabama-shooting-gun-violence-apology/"},"headline":"After Five Years, Alabama University Killer Apologizes for the First Time","datePublished":"2015-10-20T03:41:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:55:12.418Z","description":"The biology professor killed three colleagues in 2010","url":"https://time.com/4079236/alabama-shooting-gun-violence-apology/","keywords":["alabama","violence","shooting","Apology","Gun"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69588d4a1dc9e573/698868f6ab6d777e426a6be7/ap_700198571729.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69588d4a1dc9e573/698868f6ab6d777e426a6be7/ap_700198571729.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alabama University Shooting","caption":"Alabama University Shooting","creditText":"Michael Mercier—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/alabama/","name":"alabama"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4079236/alabama-shooting-gun-violence-apology/","name":"After Five Years, Alabama University Killer Apologizes for the First Time"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: U.S. Home to a Third of Global Mass Shootings","description":"Around 31 percent of public mass shootings worldwide occurred in the U.S. between 1966-2012","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZMoPz4oG/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-08-24T22:22:31.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZMoPz4oG.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4079236/alabama-shooting-gun-violence-apology/","duration":"PT1M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4079236/alabama-shooting-gun-violence-apology/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```