Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Killer of 5 Sought to Punish ‘Racist Devils’

A man killed five former co-workers “to punish some of the cowardly, racist devils” responsible for firing him from his city job, according to a suicide note released by police. Clifton McCree, who is black, fired at least 13 bullets into an all-white group of Fort Lauderdale parks employees Friday, then killed himself with a bullet to his head, police said. McCree, who had worked with all the employees except one, shot them as they sat at a conference table. “I’m glad I did it,” he wrote in the letter found in his pants pocket. “It became war. There should have been a more humane system. . . . The economic lynching without regard or recourse was--is--something very evil.”