Respectfully, to everyone, can we please dismiss the notion that Alan may have committed suicide, he was living a lovely life and when i saw the photograph of Alan and his mother, straight away i had a gut feeling that he was really, really happy.
And, Alan's brother, Tim, has also stated this was a murder.
Also, i saw many posts on youtube discussing this case that mentioned there are plenty of thugs in dallas who will kill you just to take your car so they have a ride home after their night of drug fuelled menace.
I think Alan was very unlucky and was spotted by one of these late night thugs on the end of a drug binge / thieving evening.
Sending love to Alan's family.