Terry A. Davis: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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During his final two months, Davis struggled with periods of homelessness and incarceration. He stopped taking medication because he believed that it limited his creativity. Some fans helped him by bringing him supplies, but he refused their housing offers. After living with his sister in Arizona, Davis traveled to California, and in April 2018, he stopped in [[Portland, Oregon]]. Local police were informed that Davis may be a threat, since he had stated a willingness to kill if asked by God. In June, Portland police informed officials in the city of [[The Dalles, Oregon|The Dalles]], approximately {{convert|80|mi|km}} away, that they had received word that Davis might be headed there. No further complaints were received about Davis.<ref name="newsstack">{{cite web |url=https://thenewstack.io/the-troubled-legacy-of-terry-davis-gods-lonely-programmer/ |title=The Troubled Legacy of Terry Davis, 'God's Lonely Programmers' |website=The New Stack |date=September 23, 2018 |last=Cassel |first=David |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928201148/https://thenewstack.io/the-troubled-legacy-of-terry-davis-gods-lonely-programmer/ |archive-date=September 28, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In his final video, recorded on a bench at theThe Dalles Wasco County Library, and uploaded hours before his death, he explained that he had removed most of his videos because he did not wish to "litter" the Internet, and that he had learned how to "purify" himself. At the very end, he states: "It's good to be king. Wait, maybe. I think maybe I'm just like a little bizarre little person who walks back and forth. Whatever, you know, but..."<ref name="newsstack"/>

On the evening of August 11, 2018, while walking alongside railroad tracks in The Dalles, Davis was struck and killed by a [[Union Pacific]] train. Investigators could not determine whether his death was suicide or accidental, although the train engineer believed his death to be a suicide. The police report stated that Davis was walking with his back toward the train and that he turned around before the moment of impact.<ref name="dalles">{{cite news |url=https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/thedalleschronicle/news/man-killed-by-train-had-tech-following/article_1f03fc0d-c223-5f20-a915-460fce4299f1.html |work=The Dalles Chronicle |last=Cecil |first=Neita |date=September 7, 2018 |title=Man killed by train had tech following |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002150/https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/thedalleschronicle/news/man-killed-by-train-had-tech-following/article_1f03fc0d-c223-5f20-a915-460fce4299f1.html|archive-date=November 8, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> When ''[[The Dalles Chronicle]]'' ran a story about an unnamed homeless man who was struck by a train, the newspaper was inundated with phone calls inquiring whether it was Davis, which the paper later confirmed in a follow-up piece.<ref name="newsstack" />