Chris Benoit (1967-2007)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Pro wrestler Chris Benoit canceled a pay-per-view appearance at the "Vengeance" event in Houston because of "personal reasons" a day before he, his wife and their 7-year-old son were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
Details of the deaths "are going to prove a little bizarre" when released to the public, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Autopsies were scheduled Tuesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in DeKalb County.
Authorities were investigating the deaths at a secluded Fayette County home as a murder-suicide and were not seeking any suspects.
Investigators believe Benoit, (pronounced ben-WAH) killed his wife and son over the weekend and then himself sometime Monday. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in three different rooms of the house on Green Meadow Lane, in a subdivision off a gravel road about two miles from the Whitewater Country Club.
Ballard told The Associated Press a gun was not used in any of the deaths. But he declined to say how the three died.
"We're pretty sure we know, but we want to confirm it with the crime lab," Ballard said early Tuesday. (from this Associated Press report)
xxxOn June 23, 2007, Benoit left the house show loop in Texas due to a family emergency. He missed the Vengeance pay-per-view, where he was scheduled to win the ECW World Title, unexpectedly. The next day, he was found dead in his Atlanta home with his wife Nancy and son Daniel. That night's Monday Night Raw was dedicated to his memory. (from this site)
Most of you know I'm a professional wrestling fan. No, I know all of these things are staged (the term "sports entertainment" was a dead giveaway, pardon the pun). But even then, I admire these people for literally killing themselves to entertain us (again, pardon the pun).
Seriously, we still don't know what exactly happened that fateful day when he begged off becoming the new ECW Champion and end up pursuing a real-life storyline that has stopped the "dead McMahon" storyline (I know that one's fake, too. I wasn't born yesterday).
Looks like Benoit is still keeping us fans glued to our seats even in his death.
Whatever your reasons are, we just want to know. We will not judge him as only his Maker can judge him.
We just want to know what happened.
For whatever it's worth, may you, and your family, rest in peace, Chris.
transcription by Punzi @ 10:22 PM
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> Whatever your reasons are, we just want to know. We will not judge him as only his Maker can judge him.
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> We just want to know what happened.
Reminds me of a point raised in a sermon given by a priest in our parish about a year ago: "The church now allows masses to be given to suicide victims not because the Church tolerates suicide but because all of us, even us priests, are in no position to prejudge God's infinite and Divine Mercy. We can say all we want about the suicide, but in the end it is God who judges this person. Let us, instead, pray for the person's soul, and also pray that God will forgive the person's sins and consider the good things that he/she has done while he/she was still living."
By the way, that was given on the occasion of the Feast of the Divine Mercy :)
Thanks for that, Tito Pao...
Anyway, I just heard from the news that Benoit apparently strangled his wife and suffocated his son, then hanged himself on Monday. He placed a Bible on the bodies of his family.
It also appears that he was a victim of "Roid Rage" perhaps unwarranted aggression caused by taking a lot of steroids. But they still don't know this for sure.
May God have mercy on them.
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