A man carrying what appeared to be a hand grenade was shot in Federal Courthouse

A man carrying what appeared to be a hand grenade was shot Monday in the lobby of the downtown Federal Courthouse after he walked inside the building and made threats, police said.

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Perry Manley didn't want to pay child support, and the seeming unfairness of a system that hounded him to turn over his hard-earned cash to his ex-wife had made him angry and obsessed over the past 15 years.

Manley had written and talked about the topic ad nauseam. He had filed no fewer than five lawsuits, and had joined others supporting the rights of fathers as noncustodial parents. Being required to pay child support for his three children, Manley claimed, was a form of involuntary servitude, where a man is forced to work to support a child he is not responsible for raising. In recent years, his writings and actions showed him to be increasingly bitter.

Manley was shot to death yesterday, the day after Father's Day, by two Seattle police officers inside the secure foyer of the federal courthouse. In one hand, he clutched a defused fragmentation grenade

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Manley had a grudge against a judicial system and a federal government that he thought unfairly forced him to pay child support for his three children, although he had limited access to them.

Officers at the courthouse weren't the only security personnel who knew him.

Twice within the past 18 months, officers of the Federal Protective Service at the Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle arrested him, Commander Patrick Zitny said.

"He's had demonstrations there," Zitny said.

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