A Surprising Murder in Season 2? Theory

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it officially stated somewhere by someone that there would be a surprising murder? (Continuing with Season 1's murder mystery theme).

We've theorized that this could be how they have Xavier exit the show, but a different timeline occurred to me the other night. It's something I considered before, I just gave it more detailed thought and imagined how things might go if:

Since he's only in Season 2 for a handful of episodes, what if Sheriff Galpin is murdered? We all assume he has fewer episode appearances because he will have lost his job as mayor, and Wednesday has no reason to interact with him anymore, but what if it's because he gets killed?

Imagine that in his few appearances early on, he is trying to appeal to Nevermore and the greater Outcast society around the area to help his son. Maybe he doesn't like or trust the people at Willowhill after what happened to his wife, or he knows Tyler won't get any real help there. He also is the only person around who understands, somewhat, what Tyler is struggling with because he has seen the way the Hyde affected Fran and how it ended terribly (we assume). It would be so WOEFUL if- after being spurned by Tyler (who I imagine is still angry with him/currently very unstable) and trying to get someone or literally anyone to support Tyler's condition- Mr. Galpin gets murdered, before he and Tyler manage to reconcile at all. (Maybe he's not the first murder, but down the line, even.)

It would give Tyler another tie back into the main plot mystery and give him a reason to hate whoever is messing with Wednesday/the antagonist(s). And it would give Wednesday and Tyler another opportunistic connection.

Tyler would be completely, fully ALONE if that happened though. It would be very tragic.

I don't prefer for things to go this way because I would like to see his father's relationship develop, but I also wouldn't be super mad if he did die. I would be sad, but like... in a good, story-driven, intended way.

He might even appeal to Wednesday at some point, which would really make his untimely demise and Tyler being completely alone kind of hit even harder. It would be interesting to see how both Wednesday and Tyler react to the situation.

Edit: ^ I think Wednesday might be somewhat surprised but show general indifference, sort of her usual. Since his son is the hyde who killed six(?) people, it's not so surprising to her that someone would try to get revenge- Unless something about the murder is suspicious or ties into the other ongoings, which in my mind would be the case. That would pique her curiosity more. If something happened to Mr. Galpin, naturally her thoughts would be forced to go to Tyler; it's pretty unavoidable.

Tyler, like Wednesday, in his current state would probably project indifference outwardly. Maybe even act like it was a good thing or deserved, but I think it would be in the back of his mind (his true feelings) and hit harder later.