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>> among charter boat captains in orange beach, alabama, cruz was a leader, drumming up business in good times. >> the fish is going to be good all summer. >> and voicing the frustrations in a community during the bad times. >> the day the oil entered the gulf, my phone quit ringing. >> just after a month of that interview, cruz was found dead, self inflicted gunshot wound. for 14 days he had been hauling boom and looking for oil. his brothers say his role in the clean-up in the vessel of community was worthless. >> that's what he told you? >> yes. >> that he was being put out there for show? ...

Take his own life. cnn's david mattingly reports. >> reporter: people who new him says allen kruse lived to fish and that life unravelled when the oil spill hit the gulf where he worked. he thought it was dead. >> yes. >> reporter: he said that to you? >> yes. >> reporter: no hope the fishing would come back. along the gulf coast he was a leader. >> fishing is going to be good all summer. >> reporter: and voitsing the frustrations of a community in the bad times. >> the day that the oil entered the gulf my phone quit ringing. >> reporter: just a month after that interview, he was found dead of...

He said that to you. >> yeah. >> and that there was no hoping that the fishing was ever going to come back. >> not in his lifetime. >> reporter: among charter boat chantens here, cruz was a leader. drumming up business all the time and voicing the frustrations after community in the bad times. >> the day that the ill entered the gulf my phone quit ringing. >> reporter: just a month after that interview, cruz was found on his boat dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. for 14 days he worked for bp hauling boom and looking for oil. his brothers say he felt like his role in the clean-up as a bp ...

That life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. >> he thought it was dead. >> yep. >> he said that to you? >> yep. >> and that there was no hope that the fishing was ever going to come back? >> not in his lifetime. >> reporter: cruz was a leader, drumming up business in good times. >> the fishing is going to be good all summer. >> reporter: and voicing the frustrations of a community in the bad times. >> the day that the oil entered the gulf, my phone quit ringing. >> reporter: a move month after that interview, he was found dead, self inflicted gunshot wound. his b...

Time. >> fishing will be good all summer. >> reporter: voicing frustrations of the community in the bad times. >> today that the oil entered the gulf, my phone quit ringing. >> reporter: just a month after that interview, kruse was found on his boat dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. for 14 days he worked for bp, hauling boom, looking for oil. he felt his role in the cleanup as a bp vessel of opportunity was worthless. >> that's what he told you? >> yes. >> reporter: that he felt like he was being put out there just for show? >> that's what he told his wife. didn't tell me that. he told h...