Allegedly passing off a counterfeit $20 bill. Not exactly a violent crime if indeed a crime was committed.
And FWIW, I once ended up with a fake $20 bill that I got as change from another retailer back when it wasn’t unusual to cash a paycheck and pay for purchases in cash with $50 dollar bills, and that I didn’t know was counterfeit as it wasn’t obvious to me that it was and that retailer who passed it to me probably didn’t know either. The store clerk called over her manager and the manager told me it was counterfeit and after explaining where and how I got it and that it wasn’t my intention to pass it off as payment and as I had enough other cash to pay for my purchase, FWIW the police were not called on me and the store manager only suggested I take the counterfeit bill to my bank and exchange it, which I did.
He caused his own death..........................
What exactly was his response that caused his own death?
The difference in my case was that perhaps being a white middle to upper class looking woman, the retailer did not call the police on me. And even if the police had been called, I'd likely to have been questioned and given an opportunity to explain myself rather than have to have been forecably removed from my car at gun point and cuffed.