Chaos of Katrina Drives Cop to Suicide

[wakeme2008]

:cry: I think we will be hearing more stories like this :cry: :cry:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Katrina-Driven-to-Suicide-HK1.html

September 6, 2005
Chaos of Katrina Drives Cop to Suicide
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:41 a.m. ET

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Life wasn't supposed to end this way for Sgt. Paul Accardo: alone in chaos.

He wrote a note telling anyone who found him who to contact -- a fellow officer. He was precise, and thoughtful, to the end. Then he stuck a gun into his mouth and killed himself.

Accardo was one of two city cops who committed suicide last week as New Orleans descended into an abyss of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. He was found in an unmarked patrol car on Saturday in a downtown parking lot.

..more at llink....

[leftofcool]

1. More news that breaks my heart...eom

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Corrected headline

"Bush's incompetence drives cop to suicide"

[cybildisobedience]

3. how can we even begin to measure the human suffering caused by Bush?

That is his legacy.