Austin resident and former employee of FOX affiliate KTBC, Phillip Perea shot and killed himself outside the headquarters of FOX News Corp in New York City on Monday. According to the Austin Chronicle, Perea spent the morning handing out fliers in front of the building declaring that the company and it’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, was responsible for ending his career.

Apparently Perea had been accused of being threatening to employees at the KTBC location and he felt had been unfairly targeted after his reporting on the jaywalking arrest of jogger Amanda Jo Stephen which Austin’s Police Chief Art Acevedo took exception to. The behavior of the police during the jaywalking arrest was so shocking that it made national headlines and resulted in the police chief conducting a press conference to answer allegations of police misconduct.

Acevedo dismissed complaints by saying “In other cities there’s cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for controversy in Austin, Texas”. Acevedo went on to say that jaywalking is a serious issue in Austin. “I’d rather have everybody angry at me and my officers, then to see a young person lose their life needlessly,” he said at the press conference. “I’d rather be up here talking about this, than going to our 97th fatality involving a pedestrian or 1800th injury involving a pedestrian.”

Perea was dismissed from his job and alleged that management at KTBC in Austin had cost him his career. He had launched a social media campaign on YouTube and Twitter in an attempt to expose wrong-doing against him.