HAYDEN, IDAHO -- The shootings in Hayden Tuesday have ripped apart the community as well as the friends and families of two men connected by their love of one woman.

Chad Moore shot and killed Ryan Taylor Tuesday afternoon then fled into the woods north of Hayden Lake where he set his truck on fire and then shot himself. Moore had been married to Taylor’s ex-wife, Amber Kern, who is pregnant with Moore’s child.

Like both families involved in Tuesday's tragic shooting Jimmy Henness is struggling to understand what happened at his friend Chad Moore’s apartment on Tuesday that drove him to shoot Taylor. Henness heard the news from a friend who called him up and said his buddy Chad Moore was on the lam after shooting a man to death in Hayden.

“I can't see it being an execution style killing,” Henness said.

The Chad Moore that Jimmy Henness knew was a thoughtful friend, loving father, and wouldn't kill anyone who was innocent Henness said.

“He was a very intelligent person, really into history and that's my big thing. We use to play chess together,” he said.

That's why it's so hard for Henness to come to grips with the fact that his friend of a dozen years shot and killed Ryan Taylor outside his own home.

"I don't know what transpired in the parking lot but for him to get shot in the back of the head, something had to happen," Henness said.

Henness says he'd known there was trouble between Chad, his wife Amber and her ex-husband Ryan Taylor, including a physical fight a few weeks back. Henness claims Chad was badly beaten by Taylor.

“From what Chad had told me the guy hit him about 13 times, he had black eyes," Henness said.

For now, Henness says he's grieving the loss of a close friend, and would like to remember him as a family man, a Christian and supportive buddy.

“He definitely wasn't trigger happy, something had to have set him off, I don't know what," Henness said.

Ryan Taylor meanwhile leaves behind three daughters and countless friends and family who call him a loving father and everyone's best friend. They say he died trying to protect the people he loves.

"He was a great man. He loved everyone. He didn't have an angry bone in his body,” Taylor’s friend Kim Starnes said.

“Even this dirt bag that took him away from us, if that guy would have called him for help, Ryan would have given him his shirt, that's the kind of guy Ryan was,” Taylor’s best friend Jason Anderson said.

Amber Kern's in-laws say that she has been released from the hospital, is still pregnant with Moore's child and the families are busy working on funeral arrangements.

Ryan Taylor’s friends are also busy working to put on a benefit in his honor this coming weekend. That benefit is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday at The Grail in Huetter.