In a statement released Monday morning, Stu Dornan, the attorney representing Gardner, confirmed his client's death by suicide. According to a report from the Hillsboro Police Department, he was found dead [outside] a medical clinic outside Portland, Oregon, Sunday afternoon.

Gardner made headlines on May 30, when he was confronted and attacked by a mob of Black Lives Matter rioters outside his Hive bar in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. When he was knocked down, Gardner pulled out his handgun and fired two warning shots, according to prosecutors. When he stood up, he was attacked by 22-year-old James Scurlock, who jumped on Gardner's back and began choking him, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said.

Scurlock had also broken several windows in Gardner's bar as well as at other surrounding businesses.

Initially, Kleine determined Gardner's actions—which resulted in Scurlock's death—were in self-defense. However, after news of Kleine's decision was released, Black Lives Matter activists and rioters descended on the district attorney's home and demanded Gardner face criminal charges for shooting Scurlock. In July, one angry demonstrator, Annie Schenzel, told KMTV-TV she and her BLM cohorts "believe he's not doing his job, so we're trying to hold him accountable to do his job by charging Jake."

Kleine ultimately kowtowed, petitioning for a grand jury investigation into Gardner, a former US Marine... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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