 After the crash, Alm ran across the ramp and looked down an embankment towards the Southwest Freeway, discovering that his boyhood friend had been thrown to his death 30 feet below.Apparently distraught by his best friend's death, Alm took out a pistol-grip shotgun, fired two shots into the air, and then shot himself in the head.Alm had made a frantic 911 call to summon help after the car crash prior to his suicide.