[hennie pennie]

I wonder if he had a wife and/or children?

[RegulatorCountry]

Sounds as if he didn’t. There’s an unspoken assumption in that article.

[CaptainK]

He lived with his girlfriend and baby daughter according to the NY Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/koppel_son_LNjqoiEfi8DCtPkX0hxBNI

[rintense]

Police sources told the newspaper Koppel had stumbled two and a half hours earlier into the Washington Heights apartment of Russell Wimberly, a waiter he had met 12 hours earlier in a Hell's Kitchen bar.

Not that it matters, but that sounds a little gay to me.