Alleged Killer Amy Bishop Charged in Brother's 1986 Murder

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University professor Amy Bishop – charged after allegedly opening fire on six of her colleagues and killing three, last February – is facing new charges that she also shot and killed her brother 24 years ago.

Bishop was indicted on a single count of first-degree murder on Wednesday, the Boston Globe reports, after a Norfolk County, Mass., grand jury was presented with a detailed review of that case.

Authorities in Massachusetts originally ruled the Dec. 6, 1986, death of Seth Bishop, 18, an accident. But Amy Bishop's actions in the Feb. 12, 2010, shooting at University of Alabama-Huntsville steered the spotlight back onto the professor's previous case.

At the time, Seth and Amy's mother, Judith, told police that she was an eyewitness when a loaded 12-gauge shotgun held by Amy, then 21, went off in the kitchen of the family's Braintree, Mass., home.

Police reports state that Bishop said she had taken her father's gun, loaded it, and then fired a shot in her bedroom.

When she took the gun downstairs into the kitchen, Bishop said it accidentally fired as she was trying to unload it. According to reports, she fled the scene with the weapon and tried to commandeer a car at gunpoint before she was stopped.