It was probably about 4 years ago. It wasn't an auto related death just happened out of the blue one day. He was a very involved member on the ClubWRX.net forums back in the day and one day his wife posted about how he passed away unexpectedly one night. It hit the community pretty hard to loose a good guy so young unexpectedly.
Here was the thread created by his wife,
http://www.clubwrx.net/forums/showth...hlight=koyokid