Hidden amidst the details of the bizarre and tragic Village shootout story is the fact that the gunman, David Garvin, was a failed screenwriter and journalist—he even had a journalism degree! Anyway, it seems that he so freaked out his former co-workers in the Wall Street Journal production department that they beefed up security after he got fired in 2005. Not that they did anything else about it! Like have him committed. Crazy fucking journalists.

Gunman Was Aspiring Filmmaker With Pent-Up Hostility and a R sum of Failures [NYT]