@hingehead,
It was inevitable, almost, that there'd be an ending like this for him at sometime down the track. The only thing that surprised me (at first) was that it happened in a high security prison. Then, after not too much thought, I'm not surprised at all. Why not? I sort of figures.
We locals have watched on as these crass idiots have killed each other off on our streets for years now, with a sort of bemused detachment. So long as they knocked each other off & steered clear of ordinary people in their "gang wars", we figured there'd be few of them left standing before too long. It is hard to feel any connection at all to such people at all.