When he was five years old, he was raped by an older boy.[1] He and his family moved to Texas where he joined the Eastvale, Texas, police department, soon becoming chief of the small department. After being outed to his parents as gay by one of his siblings, he attempted suicide by crashing his police cruiser into a bridge.[3] His claims about the wreck have changed over time; in 1997, he told The Dallas Morning News that someone forced the car off the bridge during a police drug investigation. Local residents that were contacted had no recollection of the event.[4]