ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- It was a chance meeting, in an apartment just across the courtyard from her home where Elisa Hernandez and Alfred Bishop had mutual friends.
Bishop, 21, an unstable schizophrenic who had recently split with his girlfriend, told the pretty 15-year-old he wanted a kiss. She wasn't interested.
"She laughed him off," Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey Blitz said.
The rejection cost her: Bishop allegedly pulled a revolver and shot her to death late Tuesday, cutting short the life of a bubbly, self-assured high school sophomore who loved hip-hop and dancing and went by "Lisa."
"She was just joyful, a funny, outgoing person who didn't care if people talked about her," said friend Barb Parred, 21. "But something she didn't want to do, she wouldn't do it."
Bishop, who fled after the shooting, was captured Wednesday at a relative's home in Washington, D.C. He is charged with murder and was being returned to New Jersey after waiving extradition at a hearing Thursday.
Bishop, who was diagnosed as schizophrenic at age 10, had recently split with his girlfriend of six years and quit taking his medication because it made him sleepy and sluggish, according to his mother, Lisa Bishop, 40.
He had been drinking and smoking marijuana earlier that night, said Lisa Bishop, who talked to her son by telephone after the killing.
Alfred Bishop, who served a year in prison for aggravated assault by auto and was released nearly two years ago, was there because he had stored some of his belongings at the apartment, according to Blitz.
After some casual conversation in the kitchen, Bishop tried to get Hernandez to kiss him, but she laughed at him, according to Blitz.
Bishop then pulled out the gun, put it to her head and again demanded a kiss, Blitz said. According to witnesses, she said no and pushed the gun away twice before he shot her through the left eye and fled, Blitz said.
She died at the scene.
Bishop, 21, an unstable schizophrenic who had recently split with his girlfriend, told the pretty 15-year-old he wanted a kiss. She wasn't interested.
"She laughed him off," Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey Blitz said.
The rejection cost her: Bishop allegedly pulled a revolver and shot her to death late Tuesday, cutting short the life of a bubbly, self-assured high school sophomore who loved hip-hop and dancing and went by "Lisa."
"She was just joyful, a funny, outgoing person who didn't care if people talked about her," said friend Barb Parred, 21. "But something she didn't want to do, she wouldn't do it."
Bishop, who fled after the shooting, was captured Wednesday at a relative's home in Washington, D.C. He is charged with murder and was being returned to New Jersey after waiving extradition at a hearing Thursday.
Bishop, who was diagnosed as schizophrenic at age 10, had recently split with his girlfriend of six years and quit taking his medication because it made him sleepy and sluggish, according to his mother, Lisa Bishop, 40.
He had been drinking and smoking marijuana earlier that night, said Lisa Bishop, who talked to her son by telephone after the killing.
Alfred Bishop, who served a year in prison for aggravated assault by auto and was released nearly two years ago, was there because he had stored some of his belongings at the apartment, according to Blitz.
After some casual conversation in the kitchen, Bishop tried to get Hernandez to kiss him, but she laughed at him, according to Blitz.
Bishop then pulled out the gun, put it to her head and again demanded a kiss, Blitz said. According to witnesses, she said no and pushed the gun away twice before he shot her through the left eye and fled, Blitz said.
She died at the scene.
