From what I am being told (since I wasn't there I'm asking questions of some that were there) seems Kirby was killing on some miner friends of ours. I guess a group came out to ask Kirby nicely to stop doing that.
My sources tell me that Strike was the original layer of wood to Kirby then Deathblows and Strike got him a second time. It wasn't the complete gank that the pictures would lead you to believe it was.
Still, miner killers shouldn't really think of themselves as PvP'ers. After all, how hard is it to kill someone armed with no more than a pick axe?