I was going to make a thread, but I'll just post it here. Thank you Malinko for starting this thread.
I regret to inform you that Shawn Noel (Shawn64) took his own life on 1/18/06.
I don't have a lot of information about it, but I do have three different sources of imformation that confirm it.
Obituary
Letter from his school
This is a letter from his school to parents.
Phone call
This is a phone call that one of his friends from his website posted.
He called Shawn's school and recorded it.
This is a sad time. We have lost a great friend and one of the best developers I've ever seen. ...... I don't know what to say really....
RIP Shawn P. Noel
1988-2006