The caregiver accused of his disabled, former client in the victim’s Woodbridge home Monday did so “out of the blue,” having no known dispute with the man, Irvine police said on Tuesday, August 6. Related Articles The suspect, Aaron Matthew Shindle, 47, crashed his gold Honda Odyssey minivan into the garage door before entering the house and stabbing John Alexander Bash III, to death, authorities said. “According to what we know, there was no beef,” Sgt.
Karie Davies said Tuesday. “According to the victim’s family, this was out of the blue. This is something our detectives are going to have to figure out.
” Police later said they shot and killed Shindle when he confronted him with a knife less than a half-mile away. As police tried to understand what led to the attack, a picture of Bash as fun-seeking, resilient and determined began to emerge Tuesday. Bash was paralyzed from the waist down, after a to his C-6 vertebrae after he dove headfirst into shallow waters while swimming at Lake Havasu on August 14, 2015.
“He was a very big light in this dark world,” said Jenny Keifer Stidham, who met Bash 15 years ago in Newport Beach when she was promoting Sharkey’s restaurant. “He was just a genuinely good person.” Bash’s social media pages are full of photos of him smiling broadly from his wheelchair while surrounded by large groups of friends at festivals, parties and dinners.
Stidham and her husband Michael kept in touch with Bash even after she relocate.