The 90-year-old broker who was terminated by Morgan Stanley on July 1, one day after he was arrested on suspicion of shooting his business partner, has died, according to a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City and an obituary in The Oklahoman on Thursday.
The cause of Leonard David Bernstein's death was not immediately clear on Tuesday.
"His death was reported to our office," the medical examiner's spokesperson told ThinkAdvisor on Tuesday. "Based on the information provided to our agency at the time, the death was reported to our office and the statutes … jurisdiction was waived," the spokesperson added.
The Oklahoma City Police Department, meanwhile, is "not investigating the death as anything criminal in nature," a police spokesperson told ThinkAdvisor.
Morgan Stanley declined to comment on Tuesday.
Bernstein died July 28, according to the obituary, which said he worked as a broker until July 1. In 1983, he married his second wife, Dianne, and the two of them "enjoyed almost 40 years of happiness together until his recent death," the obituary said.
"At the end of Leonard's long and exemplary life, he unfortunately struggled with mental health issues," according to the obituary.
"A service to honor and celebrate Leonard's amazing life will be held at a later date," it added. "In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you consider making a donation in Leonard's honor to either Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for Diseases of Aging at OMRF.org or a facility of your choosing that deals with mental health issues."
On June 30, Bernstein entered his firm's office building on Waterford Boulevard on Oklahoma City and shot Chris Bayouth, 61, several times with a handgun, according to Oklahoma County Detention Center and Oklahoma City police documents.
Bernstein was released on $50,000 bail, according to the Oklahoma City jail blotter. An initial criminal complaint was filed against him July 1 in Oklahoma County District Court, saying there was probable cause to charge him with shooting with intent to kill, a felony. Judge Kevin C. McCray was assigned the case.
Also last month, in Oklahoma County District Court, Morgan Stanley sought a temporary restraining order, temporary injunction and permanent injunction against Bernstein that the complaint said was intended to stop him from "continuing to engage in workplace harassment and from causing irreparable injury to Morgan Stanley, its employees, and its customers."
