Man Holding Daughter Killed in Road Rage

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Man Holding Daughter Killed in Road Rage


Man Holding Daughter Killed in Road Rage

BROCKTON, Mass. - A man lifting his infant daughter out of his car was killed in an apparent case of road rage by a motorist "who obviously exploded" and shot him four times at close range in front of dozens of witnesses, authorities said.
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The victim's 10-month-old girl was covered with blood but uninjured when police found her in a car seat on the floor of the vehicle.

Walter R. Bishop, 60, who was taking medication for depression, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Sandro Andrade. He pleaded innocent and was ordered held without bail; a hearing was scheduled for Aug. 26.

Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said Bishop had made a calculated decision to "shoot a man in cold blood in broad daylight on the streets of Brockton."

Police Chief Paul Studenski described it as a case of road rage.

Bishop's attorney, Kevin Reddington, said Andrade had provoked his client during a traffic altercation.

"We have a homicide that resulted from a circumstance where somebody picked a fight with an individual who obviously exploded," Reddington said. Bishop, a former soldier and security guard, had recently begun taking two medications for depression, he said.

Bishop told investigators he was driving his wife to the train station when Andrade's vehicle backed toward him on Main Street, Cruz said. The two exchanged heated words.

"He said his wife was scared, and he said he was angry at that encounter," Cruz said of Bishop. "He said he made up his mind right there that he had to do something."

After dropping his wife off, he allegedly returned to the scene of the confrontation, pointed a handgun through an open window and fired, police said.

"Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Four shots. It sounded like a cap gun," Louis McPhee, the manager of a car wash across the street, told The Boston Globe. "The guy was lying there in his own blood with a hole in his head and his arm still on the baby."

Bishop left before police arrived, but witnesses gave investigators his license plate number and police found him at his home.

Police said Bishop has a valid handgun license.

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It bothers me to see this happen espeically when your a chl or ccw holder.



Seth

[Paladin]

In Massachusetts getting into heated arguments is a way of life and the license they are referring to is probably a license to own rather than to carry.

Lived up there for 4 years... things are pretty weird up there.

[gigag04]

Police said Bishop has a valid handgun license.

That pisses me off.

[stevie_d_64]

Obviously it says something about Texas's conflict resolution portion of the CHL class...

But whatever you learn about "conflict resolution" in that class, is bolstered by the knowing what the law actually says about what you can, and more importantly cannot do, without being accountable for that action...

I agree, this story lacks some info about what "license" he actually had...

Was it like those FOID cards they issue like in Illinois??? Who knows...I'm not sure if they issue those types of cards in that state...

[KBCraig]

From what I read on packing.org, a Massachusetts LTC (License To Carry) is fairly easy to get, unless your Chief LEO is a real prick.

They do have several different classes of license. None require any training.

I'm glad anti-gun Massachusetts is so more "enlightened" than we flyover heathens.

Kevin

[gigag04]

Just a thought. Any chance this could be a SD shooting and the media flip flopped the story for thier slant. I read the article on cnn, and looked at the images, and maybe, just maybe, there was more to the story. I sure hope so.

-nick

[dws1117]

There is always more to the story then comes out in the media.

Unless the story, as written, is a complete fabrication, there is no way this was a self defense shooting.

Doesn't Mass. require an individual obtain a piston permit just to purchase a handgun?

[stevie_d_64]

Just a thought. Any chance this could be a SD shooting and the media flip flopped the story for thier slant. I read the article on cnn, and looked at the images, and maybe, just maybe, there was more to the story. I sure hope so.

-nick

There is always more to the story in every one of these incidences...Than will ever see ink to paper...