I thought he was dead when found.
Mostly dead, not all dead...
Police said they heard gunshots while patrolling the area. Rich, who was 27 years old, was found conscious and breathing at the scene. But a little more than an hour later, he succumbed to his injuries at an area hospital, according to officials.
FWIW http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/developing-seth-rich-alive-police-found-police-camera-video-went-missing/ claims to display screenshots of;
Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department "Public Incident Report CCN #16113797 dated July 10, 2016..."
also indicating Rich was alive, but died at the hospital between 0420 hours (at scene, still alive) and 0557 hours at hospital.
The rest of information covered (and guessed at?) in Joe Hoft's guest column at his brother Jim's Gateway Pundit site, i dunno, maybe there is a tie-in, perhaps the Podesta email featured was talking about some other leak & leaker(?) who could be "...[made] an made example of..."?
Whatever the case, the tie-in would need be formed up (if possible) prior to that being talked about, other than along lines of :what a coinky-dink!: ???
In context https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082#efmAGSAH- the damning statement apparently was made regarding leakers and unauthorized "talkers" being fired, not murdered.
But what a coinky-dink...