Posted on 11/07/2004 6:20:47 AM PST by Michael Goldsberry
NEW YORK - A 25-year-old man from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said.
Veal's mother said her son was upset about the result of the presidential election and had driven to New York, Gus Danese, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, told The New York Times in Sunday's editions.
Friends said Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia and was planning to marry.
"I'm absolutely sure it's a protest," Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's supervisor at the lab, told The Daily News. "I don't know what made him commit suicide, but where he did it was symbolic."
Police were investigating how Veal entered the former World Trade Center site, which is protected by high fences and owned by the Port Authority.
Darwin Award Ping.
I think this is a real tragedy. This man obviously had serious mental health problems made worse by the election (or perhaps the election was a proxy for them). My prayers for him and his family.
Shame, he was only a couple hours drive from Canada.
Stupid is as stupid does.....
The blame lies at the feet of the democrats. They fed and nurtured his sickness.
one less Hillary voter
I lay most of the blame on the Old Media. Another needless death to lay at the feet of Dan Blather and the MSM.
A recent graduate of the University of Georgia at Athens shot himself at ground zero in New York City on Saturday morning, according to authorities.Athens resident and University employee Andrew Veal, 25, was found inside the reconstruction area of the former World Trade Center, on top of a structure housing subway lines. A worker in a nearby hotel spotted someone who seemed to be sleeping inside the site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
No suicide note was found, but authorities discovered a gunshot wound to his head and the weapon at the location.
"It's apparently a suicide," Coleman said. "There was a shotgun found at the body."
Coleman said New York authorities, who were also working with Athens police, are looking into possible reasons for the suicide, as well as how Veal got into the heavily fenced site.
Veal, who was engaged, was a project coordinator at the Survey Research Center at UGA, a branch of the Institute for Behavioral Research. He oversaw 25 to 30 employees who conduct telephone surveys for state and nonprofit organizations.
He graduated from UGA with a degree in sociology, but was not a student at the present time, friends said.
Mary Ann Mauney, research coordinator at the center and Veal's supervisor, said no one knows why Veal took his life, but "I do think he chose the location for a purpose."
He also worked at an Athens restaurant as a cook. A vegetarian, Veal had plans to attend culinary school, said Leigh Hall, a UGA grad student and employee. He was "very liberal" and interested in politics, she said.
Imagine these replies on a DU thread about the suicide of a Freeper's son following a Kerry win. You'd be outraged. Please show some charity to this man and his family.
also goes to show how selfish they are for now that young man's family, fiance have to suffer his loss and I am sure his self centered thinking kept that out of his mind before he pulled the trigger.
come on guys, let's be a little more sensitive. this is very tragic. He must have had pre-existing problems - "normal" people don't kill themselves over an election, especially when they have something good in their lives to look forward to like a marriage. That's why this is so sad, that this man didn't get help before it was too late. Pray for him and his family.
It was better back in Reagans day when they would set themselves on fire.
Just cant find sympathy when such stupidty applies conservative or liberal hows that for fair.
I'm not defending violence against Republican offices or any other garbage pulled by the Left. A suicide is always a tragedy, especially for those left behind. I'd like to think that we can be more charitable and Christian than that in our comments about this man's death.
You gotta' read the whole article at Newsday to fully appreciate this story. The Newsday piece is the funniest unintentionally funny piece that I've read in a long, long time. It's almost to the point that you ask yourself, ''Is this sarcasm?''
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-suic1107,0,2157220,print.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines
My prayers to all effected. Many of the replies to this thread are classless.
This case can easily be understood if we simply apply some simple Dem (read dim) Logic:
John Kerry's hunting-trip/photo-op showed him carrying a shotgun, the same type of weapon the man offed himself with. Therefore, it must be John Kerry's fault.
No Class.
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