Well, I wasn't addressing you, but hey, you addressed me, so I'll say something. I have no doubt that "God looked out" for you when you were young and foolish and vulnerable...but the corollary to that, in this discusssion, is that God turned his back on this unfortunate young man. I seriously doubt that.
The young man made his choices, and for whatever reason God let him suffer the consequences.
I did not mean to imply that God turned his back on the young man, whose possible future we will never know and might have otherwise included a long life of abject misery or murder and mayhem had it not been cut short.
None knows his own time, nor do I pretend to know God's plan for even myself, much less others.
As it is, God has provided an object lesson to those who would emulate the young man's behaviour, sad as that may be. Hopefully some good will come of it.