The Exact Housewives of Orange County alum Lydia McLaughlin shared a heartbreaking tribute to her brother following his gruesome passing.

Geoffrey “Geoff” Shyam Stirling Jr., a model-grew to change into actor and producer, was as soon as shot plain by police after a motorway disagreement on a motorway come Newport Seashore in Southern California's Orange County April 17. He was as soon as forty five.

“My family has skilled an unimaginable loss,” Lydia wrote on her Instagram April 19. “My brother, Geoff, was as soon as tragically taken and our hearts are shattered.”

Lydia's sibling died six months after their mother Judy Stirling, who had appeared a couple of times on RHOC, passed away after struggling with breast most cancers for years.

“This was as soon as the song he grew to change into to after we misplaced our mother. He’d cry every time,” Lydia, 44, wrote in her online tribute, alongside a photograph of Geoff. “I will’t mediate we’re facing this anguish merely 6 months after shedding my best doubtless ultimate friend and mother.”

The 44-year-aged continued, “I know they’re every with Jesus now, and He’s walking with me thru this darkness. One step at a time. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us.”

The Newport Seashore Police department said In an announcement shared on social media April 18 that regarded as one of its officers had shot Geoff, a resident of Laguna Niguel in Orange County, after pulling him over whereas he was as soon as using a motorbike on Pacific Waft Toll road.

“Quickly after being stopped, Stirling became uncooperative and assaulted the officer,” the commentary said. “For the length of the following violent altercation, Stirling managed to rob away the department-issued taser from the officer’s responsibility belt and tried to deploy it more than one times in opposition to the officer. At that point, an officer-enthusiastic taking pictures took place.”

The police department said extra officers responded to the scene and rendered scientific relief to Geoff till fire department personnel arrived, after which he was as soon as transported to a neighborhood scientific institution, where he was as soon as later pronounced plain.

“Expensive Brother,” he wrote on Instagram April 20. “We procure a total bunch of photography together and shared hundreds of adventures. I don’t even know methods to originate this memorial. I’ll merely insist that you just left us too rapidly at age forty five. I’ll omit your spirit paunchy of laughter and boundless enthusiasm. Though our time together was as soon as heartbreakingly reduce again short, the memories we created will forever echo in my coronary heart.”

Jesse continued, “In every shaggy dog legend we shared, in every second of delight- every hike, tennis match, basketball game, Bible secret agent, meditation, movie watched, video venture created, yoga sesh, or deep conversation relating to the which implies of lifestyles- you taught me the which implies of brotherhood and friendship.”

Jesse said Geoffrey is “forever etched” of their family's hearts. “We can carry your spirit with us, honoring your reminiscence with every step we rob,” he wrote. “Relaxation in peace, dear brother. You are overlooked beyond phrases, and cherished beyond measure.”

Lydia commented, “Esteem you brother.”

As successfully as to Lydia, her husband Doug McLaughlin and youngsters Stirling, 16, Maverick, 14, Roman, 10, Geoff is also survived by dad Scott Stirling, 73, and older brother Jesse Stirling, fifty three, who shared his absorb tribute to him on social media.

“Expensive Brother,” he wrote on Instagram April 20. “We procure a total bunch of photography together and shared hundreds of adventures. I don’t even know methods to originate this memorial. I’ll merely insist that you just left us too rapidly at age forty five. I’ll omit your spirit paunchy of laughter and boundless enthusiasm. Though our time together was as soon as heartbreakingly reduce again short, the memories we created will forever echo in my coronary heart.”

Jesse continued, “In every shaggy dog legend we shared, in every second of delight- every hike, tennis match, basketball game, Bible secret agent, meditation, movie watched, video venture created, yoga sesh, or deep conversation relating to the which implies of lifestyles- you taught me the which implies of brotherhood and friendship.”

Jesse said Geoffrey is “forever etched” of their family's hearts. “We can carry your spirit with us, honoring your reminiscence with every step we rob,” he wrote. “Relaxation in peace, dear brother. You are overlooked beyond phrases, and cherished beyond measure.”

Lydia commented, “Esteem you brother.”