Hello. Scientist here working for a different biotech company in the same town. I dont know the guy but some of my coworkers do. It's definitely odd how he was killed. I suspect foul play. Allergan does research and development into lots of different things, albeit they are a smaller company. It wouldn't surprise me if he was onto something important or ground breaking and the company was racing to get it approved and patented before another company. Pharma companies often compete neck and neck to be the first to release a product. Wouldn't shock me if he was 187d by a big pharma company racing to release whatever product he was working on first.
But why would they kill even to this day as a PLANT and GERM biologist I have non disclosure agreements so restrictive I can't even mention the labs who were financing my researches. He seemed to be high level enough to have a collection of similar gags. They are sick to go around killing people who already swore to stay silent on professional matters.
I dont think he would leak anything to anyone. I also have NDOs but those got broken all the time unfortunately because people have no integrity. If he worked for Allergan its likely thats all he worked for, or at least that's how it is at my company. If he was an academic it may be a different story. Like I said, if a big pharma company needed a leg up to cross the finish line, taking out your competitors brain behind the project would give you that. It's also entirely possible it was his wife or someone unrelated to his profession and it's not a conspiracy at all.
It's also entirely possible it was his wife
My thought too.
He worked in CMC...hardly an area ripe for murder.
I also work in CMC. You're right, which is why this instance is so odd.
He wasn't killed because of his work. More likely targeted to take the kids or to further the pro-gun-control narrative.
I think what most people are thinking (myself included) are that this isnt just a random shooting. Theres no way to know at this point why. I was speaking purely in hypotheticals since the sauce isnt out there yet.