The story is that he fought back, so they didn't get anything.
Here's the thing: what we know for sure about the guy is he worked for the DNC and he was killed, so people make the connection that he was leaking documents.
Maybe his family knew that he wasn't leaking documents and that he wouldn't do such a thing.
Anybody is free to speculate and to follow the story where it leads, but the family might not be wrong about this.
Whenever somebody who is somehow involved with politics is killed, speculation runs rampant, but a lot of the stuff we think we know about the connection is only rumor.
More than rumor. Assange, who IS Wikileaks, has all but literally said Rich was the DNC leaker.
It’s because of that people suspect Rich was the leaker. And if he was, a “botched robbery “ is suspect too
The parents wouldn’t know if Rich was secretly leaking emails. And they don’t know who killed him or why. All they have is their emotions, which frankly are irrelevant.
I lived in DC from 1999 to 2008. It had changed a lot from the 80s when I moved there in ‘99. And it had changed dramatically from 1999 when I moved there in 2008.
The gentrification was astounding and my friends and I used to joke about how “scary blocks” would be overrun with gay hipsters in the next two years....and then they would be. I didn’t have the money at the time, but you could have bought a crackhouse around Logan Circle in the late 90s, simply cleaned it up a bit, and made a million dollar profit within 5 years.
Having said all that, it’s still a dangerous place - seemingly much more so than other major northeast cities. I have friends in Boston, Philly, and New York who have no scary stories. Nearly everyone I know who lives in the District has at least one. I know two people who have been murdered.
The neighborhood he was killed in must have gone under a substantial change since I moved 10 years ago, because I’ve never even heard of it let alone stepped foot in it. He lived there.
It sounds to me like he was on the cutting edge of the gentrification of a rough neighborhood. And sometimes those folks meet with some rough outcomes. Generally, it’s break-ins and thefts, but this sadly can happen too.