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What led up to the killings?

2006-11-01 10:52:15 · 3 answers · asked by ? 6 in News & Events Media & Journalism

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Perry Smith worked for the USPS for twenty-five years. In late 1982, his son committed suicide, devastating Smith. The death of his son naturally affected his work. He lost weight, stopped grooming himself, and generally looked and behaved like a man in a downward spiral. His supervisors responded not by showing sympathy, but by reprimanding him for every minor violation they could find. One time, a supervisor discovered that Smith left his letter satchel unattended for a few minutes and warned him that he faced disciplinary action. When it happened again, he was suspended.

They rode him hard if he exceeded his lunch break or if he delivered a letter to a wrong address. The stress was pushing this already cracked man beyond the threshold, and the constant harassment by his supervisors fed his anger. He blamed his downward spiral on the station's new postmaster, Charles McGee. Everything got more stressful and malicious after McGee took over.

Perry resigned from the service, miserable and harassed, about six months after his son's suicide. In August, he heard that McGee was leaving the post office job. Smith had not gotten over the postal service's mistreatment at the worst time in his life. On the postmaster's last day at work, Smith appeared at the post office, carrying a 12-guage shotgun.

He told the first former coworker he saw, "Jo, don't move." Then he told the others, "Don't move or I'll kill all of you."

McGee was in an office down the hall. He caught sight of Smith brandishing the shotgun and bolted out through a side exit. One employee who had worked there for ten years saw McGee take off and decided to make a dash with him. That was a bad mistake. Smith fired at McGee, but wound up dropping the younger employee behind him, tearing his ear off and damaging his spine.

McGee ran across the street into The Pantry, a convenience store. He yelled at the two clerks inside, both women, to take cover and then locked himself in the storage room while the clerks hid in the women's locker room. Smith followed McGee into The Pantry, reloaded the shotgun, and headed straight to the storage room. He broke down the door and faced McGee. "I told you I'd get you," he shouted, blasting McGee in the stomach. He pumped and fired a second time, blasting McGee in the chest. "I told you I'd get even with you, you sonofabitch!"

Smith ran out of the convenience store then raced across to the rear of the post office. There he was confronted by a police officer. Smith fired and hit him with buckshot. The cop gave him one more chance to surrender, and Smith did, as if suddenly losing all of his anger. The object of his oppression had been taken down. There was no reason to continue. As the cop cuffed him, Smith looked into his eyes and finally realized who he was. He told the cop, "Oh, I didn't know it was you. I didn't mean to shoot you."

The judge at his first trial declared Perry Smith mentally incompetent to stand trial. Smith apparently thought that he was Moses. A court-appointed shrink testified, "It was [Smith's] mission, like it was the mission of Moses, to rise up against these forces of evil." One is reminded of Nat Turner and the voices he thought he heard.

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