Assassination of Michael McCoy (2015)

In September 2015, Michael McCoy (b. Scotland), the head of GBN, one of the starters of the incredibly infamous 2015 US TV broadcast realignment, was assaulted and shot dead by two former KTXH employees at a night club in Toronto.

Michael was 45 when he was shot.

Michael's funeral took place on November 6th, 2015, in his hometown of Bellingham, Massachusetts. At his funeral, Michael's corpse was dressed like a clown (he worked as a clown before becoming head of GBN). He had a can of  beside him in his casket, per his wishes (openly stated in a Facebook posting).

Michael's funeral became a celebration. Employees of stations affected by the realignment and the shakeup did violent things to his corpse, including, but not limited to, lighting his clown hair on fire, painting pictures of Daleks on him, and various other things. By the time it came to stick him in the dirt, the can of Surge had been drained to only a few drops.