Robert from Distributed City (info@distributedcity.com) passes on this from:
Info on kuro5hin here
"Gene Kan was found in his Belmont home on July 2, 2002 with a bullet hole through the head. The San Mateo County Coroner fixed the date of death at June 29 and concluded that Kan had taken his own life. Presumably the suicide was triggered by one of Kan's longstanding bouts with depression for which he had been seeking treatment."
Info from Wired here.
Gene Kan and others started the original Gnutella portal, gnutella.wego.com, which was essential for helping people hook up to the network. Gene was also a founder of InfraSearch.com, an attempt to use decentralized technology for querying databases. InfraSearch was endorsed by Mosaic/Netscape co-creator Marc Andreessen. InfraSearch later became a part of Sun's JXTA project.
Updated 2/2003