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His mother, who was temporarily staying at his house, called authorities about 6:10 p.m. to say Dixon had doused himself with gasoline and was threatening to set himself afire.

He was going to die one way or another. Too bad the cops have to live with the aftermath.

Guy should have just struck the match and left everybody else out of it.

[Altariel]

Not necessarily. You’re ignoring the presence of the neighbor.

Also, people who are determined to commit suicide no-matter-what do it; those who make a spectacle about it typically WANT to be talked out of it.