It was a body double used to attack the store clerk. We're looking at an entirely staged event intended to besmerch the good name of poor Michael.
My best friend's uncle was Michael's summer school Math teacher. He described the recently deceased as a "Gentle giant with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, a promising student with lofty goals the drive to suceed in any arena"
Fly dear michael, Soar through the stratosphere with the angels at your side , look back in disdain as the Pigs erect a tower of lies. The scheming scoundrels ignorant of what awaits beyond the pale..........A pit, a pendulum and the piercing squeals of a thousand swine.