The Road That Lies Beyond The Black Cat: This Is Real Life

I found out last night that my good friend and riding bud - Aaron (aka: Squirrel, aka: Zyrex), hung himself last week. A week and a half ago, he left his wife and went to South Carolina. At some point, while there, he got into it with her on the phone and he told her he was coming back up here to Philly to kill her. He got in his car and started heading north and she called the police.
By tracking his phone they started to close in on him and by the time he got up to Maryland, he got wise and pulled the battery out of his phone, but by then they caught up to him. He was fucked up when they got him and they were almost forced to shoot him.
I always knew he's kinda nuts and shit doesn't roll off his back like other people. He takes alot of real seriously petty shit that others ignore as a personal affront He'd hate people's guts that he's known for years over some trivial shit that you honestly cannot believe got lodged in his ass.
Well, he must have had his Superloon outfit on when they caught him in Maryland because they had him committed. While in there, he hung himself.
They cut him down and got him in ICU and eventually he started breathing on his own, so they took him off life-support. But the period of time his brain went without oxygen has most likely left him a fucking vegetable for the rest of his life. He is now a 'ward of the state' of Maryland.
If he ever does get his mind back, he'll be facing three judges in three states for making terroristic threats across state lines. But, more likely, he is now and for the rest of his life, a vegetable.
All-in-all, given the nature of what might have gone down, this is probably the best outcome than if he would have actually made it up here. Either way though, I lost a friend. A crazy friend, but a friend just the same.