The word “drugs” doesn’t appear in the article, but there should be no doubt at all that they were involved.
don’t bet on it. My brother was a firefighter for 10 years. One of the guys who worked with him was black. The black guy didn’t like taking orders from the LT (who my brother said was an a-hole to everybody) so he came in one day with a pipe, snuck behind the LT while he was at the computer and tried to bash the guys brains in. The LT saw the guy in his monitor and moved just in time to avoid the brunt of the blow.