Earlier today, Joseph Andrew Stack, 53, "an Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees."
Two people have been injured and one person is still missing, but no deaths among the building's employees or visitors have yet been reported, and I hope none will be. Stack was reportedly killed in the crash.
"The building into which the airplane crashed is a federal IRS center" and Stack left an apparent suicide note in which he "rails against the government and, particularly, the IRS."
The Smoking Gun has more here. And Gawker's got more here.
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