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« A Woonsocket beach closes due to bacteria levels | Today | Traffic update: 95S lanes reopen after rollover » July 31, 2007Update: Freddie Bishop arraigned in murder / Photo
WARWICK -- Alfred "Freddie" Bishop, the notorious criminal released from prison less than a year ago after serving 33 years for murder, was ordered held without bail this afternoon after being arraigned on seven charges related to the murder of a Warwick man last month. But few details about what happened last month came out during arraignment. Judge William Clifton laid out the charges, the prosecutor said little, and the judge ordered no bail. Bishop, 65, of 61 Hollywood Ave., also said little at his Kent County District Court arraignment at which several of the 15 or so family members of victim Gabriel Medeiros wore shirts bearing the name "Gabe." In a statement last night, Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney announced the charges against Bishop, whom, he said, shot Medeiros and two relatives during a June 28 burglary, entering the house at 43 Warwick Lake Ave. while the family slept. Bishop had actually been in police custody since early July 3, when he was arrested at a relative's house in Warwick for violating the terms of his parole. At that time, Warwick Police Chief Stephen McCartney refused to say what Bishop had done to violate his parole or what led detectives to him. Described by the police for decades as a dangerous man with violent tendencies, Bishop had been jailed in 1973 for the murder of a friend, James Dunn. He was said to have shot Dunn repeatedly through the living room window of Dunn’s house. For that murder, Bishop became the second-longest serving inmate in the history of the Adult Correctional Institutions. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer Cynthia Needham and Journal archival reports 
Police sketch, left / Journal file photoA police sketch of the suspect in the murder; Bishop as he appeared at his release from prison last August. In the June 28 shooting at the Hoxsie neighborhood home, Gabriel Medeiros, 35, of 43 Warwick Lake Ave., was shot to death. His brother, Caesar Medeiros, 43, and Caesar’s wife, Claire Medeiros, 39, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were treated and released. The incident occurred just after midnight when Caesar Medeiros awoke to the sound of his dog barking and noises coming from the front of the couple’s ranch-style house. When he got up to investigate, the police say, he was confronted outside his bedroom door by a masked man who carried a nickel-plated handgun and may have walked in through an unlocked front door. Gabriel was shot in the chest and likely died instantly, the police say. Caesar was then shot in the arm and the upper torso and Claire in the thigh. It is believed the assailant suffered head injuries, though the police have declined to say how he was wounded. Before the patrolmen arrived, the suspect ran out the back door of the house and disappeared in the normally quiet neighborhood behind the Warwick school administration building and St. Timothy Church off Warwick Avenue. The police initially described the assailant as clean shaven and between 5’8” and 5’10” with red hair sprinkled with salt and pepper. They later said that description of his hair color may have been inaccurate, with the red perhaps due to blood. After today's arraignment, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, who had sat in the front row in the courtroom, said: "The fight is on and we're ready to go." Bishop was represented by lawyer Paul DiMaio. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsDisbelief | July 31, 2007 3:48 PM link It is really amazing how this story is always told as some kind of folklore. This guy came back to the ACI in 1989 to be prepared to be paroled.That did not happen till 2006. ???????.In those 17 years business was as usual for Alfred,he ran the prison. Now tell me that was not true. Then you let him get to the outside only so he can fail again. What is wrong with your system? I mean have an idea will you please. signed AMAZED Link Phillips | September 9, 2007 10:28 AM link My Dad met Freddie in prison when he was just a young man around 18 or so he told me he looked out for him to make sure no one screwed with him because he was a scared kid. Years later in`73 my Dad saw him when he was incarcerated,yet again and said he grew up to be a killer ,that he`d kill you with his bare hands. So if you ask me the enviroments in which we live make us the people we are. Going from a scared kid who made a mistake in life to becomeing a stone cold killer is just awful.Pray for him. Rick | May 21, 2008 9:28 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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I just can't believe anyone would spend all his adult life in prison for murder, be released and do the exact same thing over again. What's wrong with our jail system that we can't rehabilitate a prisioner in a whole lifetime?
What do they do all day time that some kind of a lesson isn't taught? Do we blame the criminal or do we blame ourselves? Someone or something failed miserably here.