and we asked him if that could have been a motive or might have led to this shooting to take place. reporter: you think it s frustration over the contractor. from the conversations i have had with him, i would say that would be a part of it. because he really felt like they should have paid him when they took him to tokyo. it was, you know, he loved to be able to travel, but when he came back, he talked about how they didn t give him the money that they said, and so i would think that that could be. reporter: salary money wasn t paid? or expenses? money that he should have gotten paid or slow pay or something. and i don t know if he ever got paid. because the last conversation i had with him several months ago was that they did not pay. reporter: and aaron, one of the other things that he said that aaron alexis had called him. he s a handyman. does handyman work here at the restaurant and other places and