Man shoots self at ground zero, reportedly distraught over Bush's election

<p>A 25-year-old from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush's re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero.</p><p>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.</p><p>Newsday, citing a police source it did not identify, reported Sunday that Veal opposed the war in Iraq and was apparently distraught after the election.</p><p>Friends said Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia and was planning to marry.</p><p>"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."</p><p>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>

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