No offence, but when I heard this news on radio, I was in total despair, except for a different reason. I know this will be controversial, but my sympathy stretches to the lost lives and their respective families and the family of the trooper. However, I will say that I found the officer's resignation to suicide as a remedy as further failure on his part. It is utter failure and worth disdain for him to intentionally and willfully leave 6 lives that were dependant upon him (not to even include the step-children). That is simply unacceptable in my opinion. Did he perceive himself as the Supreme Being who was incapable of errors? If he did, committing suicide hasn't remedied anything either. We are human and all make mistakes, albeit sometimes fatal. But to resort to suicide to remedy something that cannot be reversed, and in so doing make a widow and orphans is despicable and simply loses my respect.
Of course, this is my expressed opinion. Feel free to refute my statements, but please do not resort to argument against the person.