Might have just seen the news article on FB, not him per se.
I do understand that everything has been scrubbed. I was looking at what had been posted with reference to the neighbors’ comments about FB. If they had seen his entries on FB, that is solid evidence of quick scrubbing.
You make a good point, del, that they could have seen the article on FB. I’m not familiar with FB, so that did not occur to me. I had the impression that they had gone to the individual’s page and saw it was a neighbor.