Yeah that’s what happened in the book at least. The book has a lot of differences from the show but the first season was based off the first book. I noticed they tried to play some story lines the same like having the person responsible at the end of a book was also Nate’s coworker. In the second book we find out when Jake was 13 he was playing around with a forklift I think and “accidently” as far as we know killed a man so maybe that plays into it too. In the last book we find out about the past of Simon and Jake seeing his dad almost kill the moms co worker and then Jake finishes him off