October 6th, 2007
Barber kills himself at city council meeting
From the Associated Press:
A barber who killed himself at a city council meeting Thursday hadn’t seemed suicidal during a private meeting three weeks earlier, the mayor said Friday.
“It’s a sad situation,” Mayor Johnny Piper told Nashiville’s WTVF-TV. “You don’t … know what people go through in life.”
Piper had met with Ronald “Bo” Ward and his wife after the barber requested a meeting about his rezoning request.
When that request was denied by a 7-5 vote Thursday night, Ward pulled out a small handgun and shot himself in the head.
“Y’all have put me under. … I’m out of here,” Ward said before firing.
