That's because every time one of the two yellow Nissan R34s roared up the Hillclimb course, the exhaust note was accompanied by loud backfires that could easily be mistaken for a.45 -
caliber handgun if not a.308 - caliber rifle.
If he was distressed with the arc of his career, even his closest professional colleagues had no inkling — and they certainly had no idea that he would sit down in his office chair the morning of April 30 and, with a.38 -
caliber handgun, fire a bullet into the right side of his head.