PS. I think The Shield was winding down anyway. So, his character may had died, but it seemed to fit the plot lines to me and was near the end of the line for the “team.”
I watched The Shield religiously every week from the start (in April 2002, I think) up until the Strike Team was dealing with the whole Albanian (or Armenian, can’t recall which) gang thing.... that’s when they ‘jumped the shark’ for me....