One of Joe Exotic's husbands Travis Maldonado died in a tragic accidental suicide. Travis was just 23 when he shot himself in the head in shocking scenes shown in Netflix documentary Tiger King : Murder, Mayhem and Madness.
It happened on October 6, 2017, while he was in the gift shop office at the GW Zoo. Joe said in a news conference that Travis had been fooling around with his Ruger pistol, and didn't believe it would fire as he had taken the magazine out.
But when he tried to demonstrate that to other staff members, he actually shot himself in the head. Travis' life was shrouded in tragedy even before he met Joe.
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