Hey ladies (or men) need of some advice.

I’ve been only talking to this guy for a couple of months but know each other from middle school and we were neighbors at one point when we were kids. 19 years later after my failed 3 year toxic relationship and him going through exactly the same thing we cross paths. Intentionally when we first connected we kept it cordial and as friends fast forward 3 month afterwards we started talking more via message and text and connected, we vibed, we just flowed naturally say the least and everything just felt right. We’ve met up about 4 separate occasions. I could tell the feeling between us was mutual and on the second date he got the courage to kiss me because it was certainly not going to be me lol. Everything seemed perfect, conversations flowed about anything and everything....but...fast forward to now a last week he had two family members of his pass away in one week, and I started noticing his message becoming more short and I felt him distant. He still responded to the texts I’d send him, but would take longer to respond and like I said they were short...I never asked him what was the problem because I felt that it had to do all because of what him and his family was going through. But to make this short I’ll attach a snap of our finally conversation from this past Wednesday...I haven’t heard from him since he that evening up until today, I figured he wanted some space given his last message. So I haven’t reached out because I figured he needed that time. Did I do the right thing? Should I wait for him to reach out? Should I reach out in a couple of days to check on him? Help ladies! So tempted but I respect him enough to give him that time. I guess I’m just worried that I will never hear from him again.