His addiction stemmed from pain pills he took after an ATV crash about 10 years before his death. Five years ago, he spent nine months in residential treatment, his uncle said. A locksmith with a live-in girlfriend and two stepchildren, he began reestablishing his life.

On Nov. 21, he and his girlfriend went out with friends. Shane got upset after they arrived home and took their work van shortly before midnight, parked it in a Loxahatchee driveway about a mile from their Royal Palm Beach home, and overdosed.

He was 44.