article_snippet.sent: Steele had been diagnosed with ALS last June.
article_snippet.sent: The missive was last edited on Steele’s phone just after 6am on August 22.
article_snippet.sent: Steele’s last memory from that day, according to Steele’s attorney, is of Steele’s trying to find a pair of scissors to cut the restraint around Steele’s wife’s neck.
article_snippet.sent: Steele’s then blacked out and awakened later in a hospital bed with a tube down Steele’s throat.
article_snippet.sent: Unable to speak, the 40-year-old wrote notes asking if Steele’s had been in a car accident and inquiring after his wife.
article_snippet.sent: In his letter, Andrew Steele lamented that collected funds were not enough to cover collected funds family's expenses.