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Suicide At Ground Zero
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 8, 2004
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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A man reportedly despondent over President Bush winning reelection was found dead at Ground Zero, having killed himself with a shotgun. Andrew Veal, a 25 year-old man who worked at the University of Georia and as a chef at a restaurant in Athens, Georgia, somehow made his way into Ground Zero, though police and the Port Authority have not found any security breaches; a private security firm is in charge of Ground Zero security. No one even heard the shotgun going off; the NY Times reports that a hotel worker saw the body at around 8AM on Saturday morning. The papers initially seized upon reports from friends who thought his anger over Bush's reelection influenced his decision to pick Ground Zero, but now some think that his relationships with a fiancee and a different girlfriend may have been at the root, considering the note found on his body about his girlfriend being "too good" for him.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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