This is very sad and the below is no editorial, just some back ground:
After leaving the reserves, Alexis worked as a waiter and delivery driver at the Happy Bowl Thai restaurant in
White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, according to Afton Bradley, a former co-worker, quoted by the Associated Press.
Having travelled to Thailand, Alexis learned some Thai and could speak to Thai customers in their native language.
"He was a very nice person," Bradley said in a phone interview. "It kind of blows my mind away.
I wouldn't think anything bad at all."
A former acquaintance, Oui Suthametewakul, said Alexis lived with him and his wife from August 2012 to May 2013
in Fort Worth, but that they had to part ways because he was not paying his bills.
Alexis was a "nice guy," Suthametewakul said, though he sometimes carried a gun and would frequently complain
about being the victim of discrimination.
Suthametewakul said Alexis had converted to Buddhism and prayed at a local Buddhist temple.
Ty Thairintr, a congregant at Wat Budsaya, a temple in Fort Worth, told the AP: "We are all shocked.
We are nonviolent. Aaron was a very good practitioner of Buddhism. He could chant better than
even some of the Thai congregants."
Thairintr said that Alexis told him and others at the temple that he had taken a job as a contractor and he
indicated to them he was going to go to Virginia.
He last saw Alexis five weeks ago. "He was a very devoted Buddhist. There was no tell-tale sign of this
behaviour," Thairintr said.
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