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Source: Associated Press
A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" in an apparent jealous rage while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday.
Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he killed himself, Whitefish Police Chief Bill Dial said.
"It's pretty much an open-and-closed case. Homicide and suicide," Dial said.
Police identified the shooting victim as Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas. ... Besides appearing on TV, Rodriguez was the founder and CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters. According to the company's website, he was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game.
Read more: http://seattletimes.com/html/sports/2020514912_apuswhitefishshooting.html
malaise
(269,054 posts)Ah well
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)but, still nothing but a tragedy here.
mokawanis
(4,442 posts)Couldn't control his rage and jealousy and now he's thrown his own life away and done grievous harm to his wife and child. I feel sorry for the little boy.
longship
(40,416 posts)The last thing we need is more of them.
nolabear
(41,986 posts)No, it's tragic. But I am just exhausted with how much has to happen before people will admit guns are dangerous. In the past two hours I've read of this, a school "armed guard" accidentally fires his gun in a high school and here in Seattle a woman shot someone in a community center in some kind of rage. I don't care if you're responsible. I don't care how much you think it could never be you. Guns are dangerous, and I fear the collateral damage if we ride down the slippery slopes of paranoia, rage and greed and keep them around us all the time.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I would think that this probably isn't the first time that household has had these types of problems. The husband sounds like he was quick on the trigger and shouldn't have had a gun at hand.
malaise
(269,054 posts)As long as the gun nuts just kill themselves I'm fine - it's when they turn on innocents that can't be accepted.
nolabear
(41,986 posts)I know you know but I'm just...just...yeesh.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)That says it all.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)LeftInTX
(25,376 posts)Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Rest in peace, Gregory Rodriguez.