Did OKC Thunder Part-Owner Aubrey McClendon just kill himself?

[h2o_proof]

All of this just happened within the last 15 hours or so, wow.
Dude gets indicted, his car smashes into a bridge.

Oklahoma City Thunder part-owner Aubrey McClendon died in a one-car crash on Wednesday morning, according to Oklahoma City police. He was 56 years old.

News9.com reported earlier Wednesday that an Oklahoma City fire department spokesperson said the crash happened just after 9 a.m. local time, after a car slammed into a bridge on Midwest Boulevard between Memorial and 122nd in Northeast Oklahoma City, with one person dying in the crash.

Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department told reporters Tuesday that McClendon's 2013 Chevy Tahoe went "left of center, traveling at a high rate of speed," and collided into an embankment wall of an overpass.

"His vehicle was engulfed in flames immediately, and he did not survive the accident," Balderrama said.

OKC police will need one to two weeks to completely finish their investigation, but Balderrama noted that it appeared the speed at which McClendon was traveling "was most definitely a factor in the fatality.

The crash came one day after a federal grand jury indicted McClendon was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice and charged with conspiring to rig bidding oil and natural gas leases in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act between 2007 and 2012, when he served as CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corporation.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged that McClendon "orchestrated a conspiracy between two large oil and gas companies to not bid against each other for the purchase of certain oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma," suppressing prices paid to leaseholders and putting "profits ahead of the interests of leaseholders entitled to competitive bids for oil and gas rights on their land." The violations with which McClendon was charged carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals.

He denied the U.S. Department of Justice's claims on Tuesday.

"Anyone who knows me, my business record and the industry in which I have worked for 35 years, knows that I could not be guilty of violating any antitrust laws," he said in a statement, according to Adam Wilmoth of The Oklahoman. "All my life I have worked to create jobs in Oklahoma, grow its economy, and to provide abundant and affordable energy to all Americans. I am proud of my track record in this industry, and I will fight to prove my innocence and to clear my name."

Balderrama said Wednesday that there was "no indication" that McClendon attempted to stop his car from crashing, and that he was going well above the posted 40 miles per hour speed limit at the time of the crash.

McClendon owned an estimated 20 percent of the Thunder, and was part of the ownership group that purchased the Seattle SuperSonics in 2006 before moving the franchise to Oklahoma City and rebranding it as the Thunder in 2008.

McClendon's death comes three weeks after Ingrid Williams, the wife of Thunder associate head coach Monty Williams, died from injuries suffered in a multi-car crash in Oklahoma City. She was 44.

OKC Thunder part-owner dies in car crash one day after indictment

 

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[h2o_proof]

Single car crash, one fatality. Either he closed his eyes and put his foot on the gas or he was under the influence of some pills.

 

[Regular_P]

Definitely looks like suicide. He also sounds like a piece of shyt. fukk him.

 

[Raquinotj]

“He pretty much drove straight into the wall,” Balderrama said. “The information out there at the scene is that he went left of center, went through a grassy area right before colliding into the embankment. There was plenty of opportunity for him to correct and get back on the roadway and that didn’t occur.”

Yeah, he committed that. At least he didn't kill anybody.

RIP to that Dude.

 

[h2o_proof]

“He pretty much drove straight into the wall,” Balderrama said. “The information out there at the scene is that he went left of center, went through a grassy area right before colliding into the embankment. There was plenty of opportunity for him to correct and get back on the roadway and that didn’t occur.”

Yeah, he committed that. At least he didn't kill anybody.

RIP to that Dude.

Yeah I'm glad he didn't cause any other casualties. What's gonna happen to his 20% ownership stake now though?

 

[SHO-NUFF]

yep, he oned himself

 

[Morose Polymath]

If true, he took the cowsrd's way out. Ain't no honor in that.

 

[That Singer Guy...]

Suicide no doubt

 

[h2o_proof]

If true, he took the cowsrd's way out. Ain't no honor in that.

And if the indictment is true he definitely had some 'splaining to do. Oil & Gas leases in Oklahoma potentially impact millions of people downstream

 

[jdubnyce]

from indictment to death

wonder what he was running away from



based on the articles posted, another piece of shyt off the earth

 

[dizzy4111]

Holy shyt

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Damn went to school with 2 of his kids. Son was the quintessential fratstar but still chill. Daughter annoyed the fukk out of me.

Just got a bunch of texts about it from friends. Looks like he definitely committed that. Strange part is that he was just indicted, not convicted. This would likely take years.

 

[Raquinotj]

Yeah I'm glad he didn't cause any other casualties. What's gonna happen to his 20% ownership stake now though?

He was worth over $500 Million, I assume he had a Will, his wife and 3 kids probably will inherit all that.

 

[I'm Chillin]

Yeah I'm glad he didn't cause any other casualties. What's gonna happen to his 20% ownership stake now though?

If I had hit the powerball.. I might've had to dip my toes in that 20%