Implode-o-Meter News - Manhattan Federal Bldg Shooter Was Persecuted 15-Year Government Waste Whistleblower

After years of frustration, tragedy and loss, Mr. Downing, a 68-year-old Army veteran from Fort Lee, N.J., seemed to finally break on Friday afternoon when he walked into the federal building at 201 Varick Street in Lower Manhattan, pulled out a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, fatally shot Idrissa Camara, 53, a security guard, and then killed himself.
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About a year ago, he was severely injured after being hit by a car and was still coping with the loss of his companion of over two decades who died of cancer, friends and neighbors said. He was struggling financially, and a 15-year wrongful termination battle with the Department of Labor, his former employer, had resulted in little but exorbitant legal bills.
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It was that case that appears to have consumed Mr. Downing's life for the last 15 years. In 1999, he was fired from a job as an economist at the Department of Labor for what he described in a petition on change.org as retaliation for "for disclosing inexcusable taxpayer waste."

"Kevin became the immediate target of retaliation at the Department of Labor which also continues to this day," said the petition, which is undated but appears to have been uploaded to change.org a year ago.

Not so much a totally random event, apparently...

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Manhattan Federal Bldg Shooter Was Persecuted 15-Year Government Waste Whistleblower