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Stuart G

(38,428 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 03:40 PM Oct 2018

His Body Behind the Wheel for A Week Before It Was Discovered

warning: sad story, about suicide in NYC.. took place in August..reported today's edition..About life, its difficulties, and lack of hope.

Source: New York Times..

10/23/18

A software designer ended his life in his parked car in the East Village. His family asked the police for help finding him, but met resistance.

A neighbor walking his dog in the East Village saw the man one night, sitting motionless behind the wheel inside a parked car. Two days later, he was still there. The windows were up, the engine off -- this during an August heat wave. The neighbor called 911.

Soon the block of East 12th Street was busy with police officers and their bosses, the car roped off with yellow tape. There were no signs of foul play. A team from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner arrived that afternoon, Aug. 31, and removed the body to determine the cause of death. People who lived and worked nearby kept their distance.

A direct link to the entire article.......(found by..BumRushDaShow. ) Pictures and entire article at link below. Article discusses his life, family, work, and what may have caused this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/nyregion/man-found-dead-in-car-new-york.html

Another paragraph that was special to me:

"The chain of events serves as a stark reminder that even in 2018 Manhattan, a city that lives beneath the nonstop gaze of countless surveillance cameras, one that for years has urged its citizens, if they see something suspicious, to say something, it is still possible for a dead man in a parked car on a busy block to go unnoticed for days."
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