The definition of a short is to sell shares borrowed from someone else.
Selling shares that you own (I suspect to pay his own personal bills) is not shorting.
Accessing the capital markets to get capital needed for the company to complete projects in progress isn't either shorting or uncommon.
I flirted with a company that was trying to farm a form of sealife and when I looked at their financials I left for someone else to try it they had something like 4 Billion shares outstanding puting themselves in what I consider an unrcoverable position they would have had to do a pretty serious reverse split to become investable and I don't see that Pyro is any where near that predicamen