2 workers at Mass. inquest say Ala. prof threatened them with shotgun after killing brother

Mass. workers: Ala. prof threatened us at gunpoint

QUINCY, Mass. — Two men who say they were threatened at gunpoint by Alabama professor Amy Bishop after she shot her teenage brother dead in 1986 have testified at a judicial inquest into the suburban Boston killing.

Tom Pettigrew and Jeff Doyle were working in a Braintree, Mass., auto body shop the day Bishop shot her brother. They testified Wednesday on the second day of the closed-door inquest and spoke outside court after.

Police originally ruled the brother’s shooting accidental. The case has been scrutinized since Bishop was charged with fatally shooting three colleagues at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in February. Bishop has said the faculty shooting “didn’t happen.”

Pettigrew says Bishop pointed a shotgun at him and Doyle and demanded a getaway car following her brother’s shooting.

Doyle says he hopes the inquest finds “more answers.”