What is the deal with the Dan Markson death?

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Burdizzo
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Single man, real estate developer, age 58, "dies suddenly" at home shocking his friends and the business community. The local lazy newspaper doesn't report details other than he was a single man with a 4-year-old son.

Since he is Jewish, the funeral and burial are held very soon after.

Now the details come out...

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Monday, police released preliminary information about the Markson case, calling it an "apparent sudden death." Police said a child went upstairs to Markson's bedroom to wake him up sometime before noon that Saturday. The child came back downstairs and told an unidentified adult that Markson was not waking up.


That adult and another unidentified adult found Markson in his bed with a gunshot wound to the chest. Police were called. The adults moved Markson to the floor and began CPR, police said.

Markson was declared dead by a city medic at 12:05 p.m.


Officers found a firearm on the floor of the bedroom.

Police wouldn't identify the child; Markson was a single father whose 4-year-old son lived with him.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office indicated Markson's cause of death was the gunshot wound but hasn't determined the manner of death. Homicide investigators are still on the case.
p_bubel
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IIRC, he had been dealing with cancer before this. I'm not sure if that had been in remission or not.
rwtxag83
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Just looked at this, Bizarre. By all accounts a very well liked and highly professionally appreciated person. Suicide? Most people don't shoot themselves in the chest.

He did develop some big $$$ projects. Maybe somebdoy got pizzed over some money not coming their way.

Not a word from law enforcement. Not even that they suspect foul play.
Greater love hath no man than this....
mccjames
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Law enforcement does not suspect foul play, that is why you haven't heard anything.
Producers_96
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Not good, but no foul play.

Burdizzo
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Saw that today. I don't know anything about Markson or the business community he is in. But this is just a strange story.
mccjames
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Just curious but why is the story strange? He killed himself, unfortunately it happens more than it should. Really sucks that he left behind a child, but there was no foul play suspected from the beginning, other than the media trying to sell a story with no basis or source.
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