It's incredibly sad, whatever happened. I've felt the loss from many people in my life leaving too soon. We all have. Sometimes it's suicide, sometimes it's a car accident. Sometimes it's cancer. Sometimes people just get old and die. Sometimes people get mugged by thugs. Or Police. Maybe there isn't a difference between the last two.
But it doesn't matter right now. The process of justice is a slow-moving wheel. Sometimes it doesn't move at all. Sometimes it moves the wrong way.
For better or worse, that wheel is not in the hacker community's hands. Keep records, remember what you saw happening. But it's far too soon to expect anything concrete.
Instead, I think it's reasonable to think of what the family has to say. At least for right now.
So I offer this:
I use Ian Murdock's work every day at my job and every evening when I'm just playing around with stuff.
Debian has been the single most important technology that propelled and directed my career and my creative life since I started creating things with technology.
This person, who I never had the opportunity to meet, affected my life in amazing ways by giving me tools I never had and didn't have the ability to imagine.
Thank you, Ian Murdock.