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March 8, 2013

WHITEFISH, MONT. (AP)
Police in northwestern Montana say a man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife.

Whitefish police say 41-year-old Wayne Bengston then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house, and drove to his home in West Glacier where he apparently killed himself.

Police identified the shooting victim as 43-year-old Gregory G. Rodriguez of Sugar Land, Texas. Besides appearing on TV, he's the CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters.

Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and visiting her at her mother's house when her husband showed up Thursday night.

It wasn't clear how Rodriguez and the woman were acquainted. Police plan to hold a news conference Friday afternoon.

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Originally posted by shawnmc:
Sounded kind of fishy to me. I don't the guy nor never heard of him. But I sure have never gone to the home of a stranger and sat at the table and had a glass of wine with his wife.


HELENA, Mont. (AP)



A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" in an apparent jealous rage while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday.




Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he killed himself, Whitefish Police Chief Bill Dial said.

"It's pretty much an open-and-closed case. Homicide and suicide," Dial said.

Police identified the shooting victim as Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas. Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and visiting her at her mother's house in Whitefish when her husband showed up Thursday at about 10:30 p.m.

Rodriguez and the woman, who works for a firearms manufacturer in the Flathead Valley, met at a trade show and struck up a casual relationship that police do not believe was romantic, Dial said.

She and Rodriguez were sitting at the kitchen table, talking over a glass of wine, when Bengston entered the house and shot Rodriguez, Dial said.

He then beat his wife on the face and head, most likely with the pistol, he said. She was treated at a hospital and released.

"I think it was a jealous husband, but this is all conjecture," Dial said.

After the shooting was reported, Flathead County sheriff's deputies found Bengston's truck parked in his driveway. Efforts by a police SWAT team to contact Bengston inside the house were unsuccessful, and officers found his body with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said.




Besides appearing on TV, Rodriguez was the founder and CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters. According to the company's website, he was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game.

He was a mortgage banker before founding Global Adventure Outfitters and has hunted in 21 countries, the website says.

"A Rifleman's Journal" tracks Rodriguez's hunting travels to exotic locations, according to a Sportsman Channel description.

He has a wife and two children, it says.

A woman who answered the phone at Global Adventure Outfitters confirmed that Rodriguez had been in Montana but said the organization would not be making a statement at the time.

Bengston worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Dial said.

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I will be the whipping boy again, would not want to disappoint anyone.

There is a whole lot more to this story than what has been posted.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
I will be the whipping boy again, would not want to disappoint anyone.

There is a whole lot more to this story than what has been posted.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Drummond, there is more to this than you or anyone else wants to deal with, grow up.

This guy did not just shoot Rodriguez for the hell of it.

You don't want to deal with it that is your prerogative. My limited dealings with Mr. Rodriguez, I believe he was a real good person.

The problem is, the private side of an individual and the public side may not exactly match.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Then why don't you stop saying anything? You did not suffer any real personal loss now did you?

Mr. Rodriguez's family did and the family of the shooter will. What have you suffered?

I do not know what happened or why, And Neither Do You.

Maybe the husband over-reacted, that is not impossible now is it?

Maybe something was going on that should not have been going on.

Contrary to some folks belief, I am not passing judgment, because unlike the rest of you(?) I am not sure of what was going on.

Any of you that can give an accurate/definitive answer as to what happened and why, please do so.

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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

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"If you are in a hole, STOP digging"

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Drummond, I have no respect you what so ever.

My condolences go toward Mr. Rodriguez's family and the family of the shooter, they are the only folks that are losing anything in this situation, not you, not me.

Fact is, NONE of us knows for sure what caused this situation to take place.

I have enjoyed reading Mr. Rodriguez's articles in various publications over the years and feel bad that such a knowledgeable individual has been taken from us. That does not change the fact that none of us really know what precipitated the events that took him from us.

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Originally posted by DLS:

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Drummond, I have no respect you what so ever.

My condolences go toward Mr. Rodriguez's family and the family of the shooter, they are the only folks that are losing anything in this situation, not you, not me.

We should probably be grateful that shitaway hasn't added his 2cents1

Fact is, NONE of us knows for sure what caused this situation to take place.

I have enjoyed reading Mr. Rodriguez's articles in various publications over the years and feel bad that such a knowledgeable individual has been taken from us. That does not change the fact that none of us really know what precipitated the events that took him from us.

Crazy (that seems to be a good name for your at the moment), you just don't know when to give it up. STOP! It's not enough for you to make a complete fool of yourself on the other thread about this sad event, you have to repeat it here too? WTF is wrong with you???

In both threads, YOU introduced the prospect of perhaps something inappropriate between Mr. Rodriguez and the woman. Nothing indicates that, only your speculation. In fact, the newspaper article said the police do NOT believe anything inappropriate was occuring, so you're even more wrong to keep suggesting that there was more to the story than has been reported. You don't know anything, I don't know anything, so stop speculating and shut the F up while you're behind.

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My condolences also go out to Crazy's family, I can only imagine the pain and shame they go through living with him.

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Originally posted by Topgun 30-
The guy just doesn't get it

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Originally posted by Lhook7:
My deepest condolences go out to Greg's family, I can only imagine the pain they will go through living without him.

My condolences also go out to Crazy's family, I can only imagine the pain and shame they go through living with him.