“People that commit suicide don’t usually do it in their front yards.”
That’s what I was thinking with the 1st report - but this was updated later:
‘The body was found on a trail “some distance from the house,”’
So now it doesn’t sound like it was in his yard at all.
I gave this some thought and I can now understand why someone would commit suicide outside of their home, especially with a gunshot. It’s possible he wanted to spare the family of seeing the gruesome scene and having to deal with the clean-up. It also allows the family to think of happy moments spent in the house without associating them with their loved one’s death and makes it easier for the family to continue living in the house, if they choose to do so. I would have a hard time living in a house after something like that happened in it.
In our newspaper it said that he was having financial troubles, even though he was still broadcasting games. What a tragedy.