Man kills TV host: Married TV host of 'Rifleman's Journal' shot dead, The story a man who shot and killed a TV host before turning the gun on himself is making headlines in the UK.
Friday's Daily Mail headline read, "Married host of TV show A Rifleman's Journal 'is shot dead by husband of woman he was visiting who then turned the gun on himself'..........examiner.
Police say a northwestern Montana man shot and killed TV host Gregory G. Rodriguez, as the popular TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife.
The alleged gunman, Wayne Bengston, 41, is accused of beating his wife before taking his 2-year-old son to a relative’s house. Police say that Bengston then drove 25 miles away to West Glacier, Montana, where he committed suicide.
Bengston’s wife told police that Rodriguez was in the area for business and stopped by to visit her at her mother’s house when her husband showed up sparking a violent confrontation. The shooting was the result of a dispute between the two men, but so far police are not saying what sparked the dispute.
The shootings sparked a manhunt for Bengston. Police found his truck parked in his driveway. A SWAT team was dispatched and tried to contact the suspect. Police eventually entered the home and found Bengston with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
The Daily Mail reports, "Greg Rodriguez enjoyed a successful career as one of hunting's leading experts. He killed his first buck at the age of 14, sparking a life-long love of the sport.
"He was a mortgage banker when he went to Africa for the first time in the mid 1990s, but he fell in love with the continent and returned home to launch his own company, Global Adventure Outfitters. GAO helps people achieve optimum experiences when trekking across the globe for hunting."
Police are not commenting on speculation that this crime was motivated by jealously between the Bengston and Rodriguez.
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