Ex-chief now questions 1986 Bishop shooting probe

BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — A former suburban Boston police chief now says he has serious questions about the investigation done when an accused university shooter killed her brother in 1986.

Amy Bishop is accused of shooting six colleagues, three of them fatally, at the University of Alabama-Huntsville on Friday. In 1986, she killed her brother with a shotgun in Braintree, Mass., but his death was ruled an accident.

Retired Braintree Chief John Polio at first defended the handling of the case. But he said Tuesday he has ``myriad' concerns about a report on it.

The now 87-year-old Polio said there were no ballistics tests included. He also thought it odd that there was an 11-day gap between the death and interviews with family members, apparently because they were too distraught to talk sooner.

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