Well, if the whole article is to be believed, they met before she got sick and had the amputations. He gets credit for loyalty.
But, if you are at a riot, with a gun, and point it... the downside is on you, even if its only a misunderstanding. (As in, he wasn’t sure of the driver’s intentions, his girlfriend was immobile, and on the driver’s side, he was trying to avoid confrontation, but didn’t know if the guy with the rifle was using it to gesture, or was brandishing, or really wanted to kill him.)
There is a very “uncanny valley” picture of the two of them in the article. Midface enlarged by the lens, and skin made weirdly plastic-smooth by software.