{"id":321,"date":"2004-11-06T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T04:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=321"},"modified":"2004-11-06T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T04:57:04","slug":"man-kills-self-at-ground-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Man Kills Self at Ground Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News is reporting that a man has offed himself<\/a> at the site of the WTC, possibly because of George Bush’s re-election.<\/p>\n

A 25-year-old university worker from Georgia shot and killed himself at ground zero Saturday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The man, Andrew Veal, of Athens, Ga., was found atop the structure housing the 1 and 9 subway lines after a hotel worker spotted what he believed was somebody sleeping inside the site around 8 a.m., said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found near the body, Coleman said. No suicide note was found, he said.<\/p>\n

Veal apparently was distraught over President Bush’s re-election, Newsday reported Saturday on its Web site edition, citing an unnamed police source. The newspaper also said the man was a registered Democrat who opposed the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Coleman said he could not confirm Newsday’s account.<\/p>\n

Police were investigating how Veal entered the former World Trade Center site, which is protected by high fences and owned by the Port Authority.<\/p>\n

Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia and was planning to marry, friends said Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not meaning to make light of this but, if Veal did indeed take his own life over Tuesday’s decisive election, it seems a wee bit of an over-reaction. At least he didn’t pack on an explosive belt and go for a more serious statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News is reporting that a man has offed himself at the site of the WTC, possibly because of George Bush’s re-election. A 25-year-old university worker from Georgia shot and killed himself at ground zero Saturday morning, authorities said. The man, Andrew Veal, of Athens, Ga., was found atop the structure housing the 1 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-04","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}