I was spectating a player and then they disconnected. I am not sure if they saw i was spectating but when they disconnected i was left in spectator mode and had to dc from the game. when i returned to my game, i was dead and there was no killer log. Might be a bug or user error. Just thought i'd leave this here

Standard Rust behavior. 

Yep, welcome to RUST.
PA uses the same method that the command uses, when you enter spectate your character "dies" and you basically follow people as a ghost.
You don't have to reconnect, you could also use the

kill​

command

okay i also use respawn. thanks guys :)