Apparently James Thomas Hughes, who died after a shootout with police in our fair city of Beaumont, Texas, yesterday, shot himself. The Beaumont Enterprise reported today that an autopsy showed Hughes shot himself in the chin. No word as to why this guy ran from police. He was out on bond for an attempted murder charge in Louisiana. Someone in a story this morning said Hughes, who reportedly received a dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps for beating up a subordinate, may have had all those weapons because he works in a local gun shop. Hmmm. Does that mean a cowboy rides around all day with cows in his pickup? Or does a wild animal trainer have a tiger in his trunk? I think not.