“That shocked me that it was the police, at first ... but then I thought about it,” Reinoehl’s sister said. “There was no way that the Michael I knew would have gone quietly, although that would have been the right thing to do.
“I really had hoped he was in custody, because if he was out there, with his history of acting first and rationalizing later, odds were he was going to get himself killed.”
Reinoehl’s sister said she’s not angry at police. She believes officers wanted to put her brother in handcuffs and take him to jail.
“I think that was their intention. I don’t think that was Michael’s intention,” she said. “There’s only so much you can do with someone who doesn’t want to be taken in,” she said. “It wouldn’t be fair to blame them.”