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On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 18:16:18 -0800 (PST), True North
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On Friday, 8 March 2013 19:46:27 UTC-4, jps wrote:
On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:42:08 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



On 3/8/13 6:37 PM, jps wrote:




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.






The dead guy is Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas.


Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and


visiting her at her mother's house in Whitefish when her husband showed


up Thursday night.






Rodriguez and the woman, who works for a firearms manufacturer in the

Flathead Valley, met at a trade show and struck up a casual

relationship that police do not believe was romantic, Dial said.



She and Rodriguez were sitting at the kitchen table, talking over a

glass of wine, when Bengston entered the house and shot Rodriguez,

Dial said.



He then beat his wife on the face and head, most likely with the

pistol, he said. She was treated at a hospital and released.



"I think it was a jealous husband, but this is all conjecture," Dial

said.



After the shooting was reported, Flathead County sheriff's deputies

found Bengston's truck parked in his driveway. Efforts by a police

SWAT team to contact Bengston inside the house were unsuccessful, and

officers found his body with what appeared to be a self-inflicted

gunshot wound to the head, police said.



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.



Talk about 'living by the gun and dying by the gun'....


Poetic for certain but an ugly example.