NASA gunman cited evaluation
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An “average” job review led a space engineer to buy a gun, then kill a co-worker he blamed for the appraisal and himself at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, police said.
The engineer, Bill Phillips, 60, left rambling notes saying his victim, David Beverly, 62, had called him stupid.
Phillips, a contract employee at NASA for Pasadena-based Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., was provoked by a mid-March job review that criticized him for being late to meetings and other minor offenses, said Jacobs Senior Vice President Lon Miller.
But his overall score was “average” and Phillips was “considered a solid performer” until recently, Miller said.
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