The guy was amazing. I have a sick hope. I hope he was diagnosed with uncurable lung cancer (or some such illness), they gave him a few weeks to live, and he decided not to let anyone or anything take that decision away from him.
The gunshot will turn out to have been from an aggrieved husband or someone else with a legitimate complaint about him.
Cheers, Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)