Kitteh Guy Standoff!

UPDATE: Suicide.

All respect and love to Kitteh, but I do suspect a alcohol-drugs-pharma connection here.

UPDATE: It gets curiouser. A commenter purporting to be Gary Bassett’s sister writes at Missoula Red Tape:

Thank you for the FEW people that could see that there may have been more to the story. But, no mercy was shown for my brother, who was mentally ill and told the police he was. He had been under the care of a psychiatrist for decades and was on medication that he was having problems getting. It seems that your community has no provisions for a Dr. care for someone on Medicare.

Gary was a Vietnam vet, a helicopter pilot. He would take his fellow soldiers out to the combat zones to return later a pick them up in body bags. He was never the same after he came home.

He was all alone in your town and has loved and had kitties all his life. He would call me and tell me the cute things Mercy was doing. She was his delight and she loved him. Why do you think she still showed love for humans after she was so badly hurt???

The police came to his door, he told them he was going to kill himself..They knew he was a disabled vet and under psychiatric care. With no mercy in their souls they drove Gary into his darkest corner. Why. with what they knew, did they not send a professional to talk to Gary. So Mercy is dead..my brother is dead..May God Show Mercy on all of you who judge and are without sin.

Gary was a retired MD a psychiatrist..surprise?? He leaves, a wife, 6 kids, a mother, a father, a brother and his sister who knew how good and kind he was.

I assume there will be some followup on this.