The State - News from Jan. 8, 1986
A one-time federal auditor, apparently upset at being fired, killed his former boss with a shotgun blast and then was killed himself in a shoot-out with Sunnyvale police. Police Cmdr. Alex Michaelis said Eddie Scott Miller, 50, lay in ambush in the office of George Carter, 54, branch manager of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, a civilian watchdog branch of the Defense Department. Miller was fired in May, 1984, for misconduct after writing threatening letters to supervisors for their failure to promote him, police said.
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