Suicide
On July 18, 1989, Moore had an argument with his wife Tonya and shot her three times. The incident occurred in view of their three children at their Anaheim Hills home. Tonya Moore and daughter Demetria, then 17 years of age, fled from the house and Demetria drove her mother to the hospital. Both survived the shooting.
Back inside the house, still in the presence of one of his sons, Moore then committed suicide.
When he was cut by Kansas City, he'd really been depressed about that. I mean, here he is, the high-life career...then all of a sudden, it's gone. He comes back home...and the marriage, the family, is all destroyed. I mean, what else does he have left?
- — Demetria Moore on what drove her father to his final acts of desperation
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