PCMag senior editor shot dead in home invasion

"Four masked men burst into a Pittsburg home, pistol-whipped a woman and fatally shot her husband -- a senior editor for PC World magazine -- in what police believe was a targeted attack because they said the victims had been involved in drug activity.
Rex Farrance, 59, senior technical editor at PC World in San Francisco, was shot in the chest and killed shortly after the assailants forced their way into his home on Argosy Court about 9 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said today. "

"We have substantial reason to believe that the victim and his wife were involved in the possession and, potentially, the distribution of illegal narcotics," said Conaty, who declined to specify what type of drug. Police also would not say whether the killers had taken anything from the house. "

NOTES: Some other Rex Farrance articles on PCMag:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127105/article.html
http://www.pcworld.com/search/results?qt=Rex+Farrance#