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https://www.newsweek.com/man-dies-car-crash-after-defacing-black-lives-matter-mural-mud-oil-graffiti-1523729
A man suspected of defacing a Black Lives Matter mural in Vermont with mud, oil and graffiti died in a car accident, police announced Thursday.
The suspect, identified as Fred Seavey by the Montpelier Police Department, died in a car accident July 1 after losing control of his vehicle and crashing into a highway median, according to an accident report by WCAX.
Police had identified Seavey, who was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, as a transient with no listed home address, WCAX reported. Using DNA from the crash scene, police were able to positively match those samples to ones collected from spray paint cans found near the mural.
Police used the DNA evidence, witness statements and video surveillance to posthumously link Seavey, 56, to its investigation into the mural's vandalism, according to a news release.
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A man suspected of defacing a Black Lives Matter mural in Vermont with mud, oil and graffiti died in a car accident, police announced Thursday.
The suspect, identified as Fred Seavey by the Montpelier Police Department, died in a car accident July 1 after losing control of his vehicle and crashing into a highway median, according to an accident report by WCAX.
Police had identified Seavey, who was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, as a transient with no listed home address, WCAX reported. Using DNA from the crash scene, police were able to positively match those samples to ones collected from spray paint cans found near the mural.
Police used the DNA evidence, witness statements and video surveillance to posthumously link Seavey, 56, to its investigation into the mural's vandalism, according to a news release.
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Man Dies in Car Crash After Defacing Black Lives Matter Mural With Mud, Oil and Graffiti (Original Post)
PTWB
Aug 2020
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Nothing more to say.
Walleye
(30,996 posts)2. Freedumb is not wearing a seatbelt
Or blame the dead man since he is transient. Maybe the real culprit was connected?
Raine
(30,540 posts)4. Headline makes it sound like defacing had something to do with the car crash but
the defacing was in the middle of June and the car crash he died in was July 1, a couple weeks after. 🙄
oasis
(49,365 posts)7. The deceased will always have vandalism as his "claim to fame". nt
Takket
(21,550 posts)5. That's a shame
JI7
(89,244 posts)6. I wonder if he was one of those that were paid to do it