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By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News
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A man involved in opening a premier shooting range has been arrested in connection with the death of his brother, a Denton peace activist who was found slumped over the front seat of his truck with a gunshot wound to the head, Flower Mound police said.

A Flower Mound officer on routine patrol found David Honish, 52, in his Ford F-150 pickup truck around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The vehicle, with its engine still running, was about 25 feet off the roadway on U.S. 377 just north of FM1171.

"The way he was parked appears that he was there to meet someone," Officer Boon said.

A firearms expert, Mark Honish was president of Tactical Advantage, which plans to open the nation's largest indoor shooting range in Roanoke in the fall. The City Council voted in 2003 to approve the construction of the 40,000-square-foot Tactical Edge Performance Shooting Centers.

On the Web site Aubreyturner.org, David Honish wrote in 2003 about the pair's plan to start the gun range. "Long story short, we need $400K in private investment to qualify for the loans to make this happen," he wrote. "Will work out the details with my brother & have info on it in the near future for you."

Mr. Honish was the "main motivator" for the North Texas Veterans for Peace, which often gathered on an overpass near the University of North Texas campus, said Bernie Jezercak, the group’s financial officer.

"He was a very fine individual," said Mr. Jezercak, who had known Mr. Honish for about six years. "He was usually our front man."

The group last met Memorial Weekend, and Mr. Honish was there as always, he said.

"He was his usual jovial and insightful self," said Mr. Jezercak, who added that Mr. Honish was known to be opinionated.

U.S. 377 and FM1171, Flower Mound "He wasn’t afraid to shock people into paying attention to what’s going on," he said. "He wasn’t disrespectful or aggressive. But he was willing to make a statement."

Dan Burnam, the coordinator for Peace Activist Denton, said Mr. Honish was not a member of the Denton group, but that they met for the first time in 2003 at a demonstration and had reconnected at several “peace actions� in the past few years.

In October, Mr. Honish was among about 40 people who took part in a demonstration against torture and the war in Iraq outside the office of U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess in Lewisville. They were part of the local version of "The World Can't Wait" campaign, a North American movement protesting the policies of the Bush administration.

Mr. Burnam said he received an e-mail from Mr. Honish on Wednesday with the subject line "Reasons not to re-enlist" and that had talked about opening the gun range with his brother.

"I don't know that much about David's personal, private life," Mr. Burnam said. "It's kind of bizarre he died in a gun accident."

Mark Honish had owned a company called Blackhawk Air Services between 1997 and 2002, according to state records. He recently worked for Basin Aviation, a Midland-based company that provided charter flights. A company official who declined to give his name said Mr. Honish worked sporadically.