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WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – The executive director of a black civil
rights group Wednesday said a prominent Democratic donor is not
being prosecuted after two men were found dead in his West
Hollywood apartment about 18 months apart because the victims
were gay black men.

A man – identified as 55-year-old Timothy Dean of West Hollywood
– was found dead early Monday at Ed Buck’s apartment in the 1200
block of Laurel Avenue, where another man was found dead in 2017
of what authorities deemed a drug overdose.

“Tim was loved — by his family, his friends, everybody that he
came into contact with,” Dean’s friend Mark Chambers said.

Deputies from the sheriff’s West Hollywood Station responded
about 1:05 a.m. Monday to the apartment regarding a person not
breathing. The caller performed CPR and called 911, and Los
Angeles County Fire Department personnel pronounced the man dead
at the scene, according to Deputy Charles Moore of the Sheriff’s
Information Bureau.

Homicide detectives were sent to the scene to investigate. His
cause of death was under investigation by the county coroner’s
office, Moore said.

Dean’s roommate of three years, Ottavio Taddei, appeared to be
blindsided by the news as he arrived home from Italy.

“I lived with him,” Taddei said. “He never did drugs. I never
saw him on drugs.”

Buck made headlines when the body of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore
was found at the same apartment on July 27, 2017. The coroner’s
office ruled Moore’s death an accidental methamphetamine
overdose, to the dismay of his family.

Buck, who is in his 60s, was present at the location when both
deaths occurred, according to the sheriff’s department.

“The deaths of Gemmel Moore and the young man who died Monday
are beyond tragic, however, because they’re both black gay men
justice is not prevailing,” according to a statement issued by
David Johns, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based
National Black Justice Coalition.

Johns called it “public knowledge that Ed Buck was allegedly
giving young black gay men harmful drugs long before this second
young man died in his home,” and added that it was also his hope
“that these tragic events encourage conversation about the fact
that the lives of black gay men are not disposable.”

Johns also said that any violence against black people “must be
confronted with the full might of justice at our disposal.”

“This is especially true at a time where the nation’s commander
in chief is using identity politics to divide and score
political points,” Johns’ statement continued.

Buck has been a prominent donor to Democratic candidates and
office holders.

Community activist Jasmyne Cannick, who worked closely with
Moore’s family, has called for Buck’s arrest, prosecution and
conviction and the Los Angeles LGBT Center issued a statement
calling on the sheriff’s department “to fully investigate this
tragedy and aggressively seek justice wherever the investigation
might lead.”

“The reports we have heard provide more questions than answers,”
according to the statement. “The fact is two black men have died
at Mr. Buck’s home in less than two years.

“While much is still to be learned, it appears this tragedy is
linked to substance use.”

But Chambers says there is still much to learn, since
investigators have not released much information about his
friend’s death.

“I don’t know what the facts are, police haven’t stated the
facts,” he said. My issue right now is — character assassination
is not going to happen,” he said.

The sheriff’s department said the District Attorney’s Office
will be closely involved in reviewing the latest case, as it was
in the Moore case, which will also be the subject of “a
secondary review” by sheriff’s homicide detectives.

Buck’s attorney, Seymour Amster, has denied that Buck had any
involvement in either death.

Los Angeles County prosecutors last July 26 declined to pursue
criminal charges against Buck stemming from Moore’s death.

According to a charge-evaluation worksheet prepared by the
District Attorney’s Office, the evidence was “insufficient to
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that (Buck) is responsible for
the death of Gemmel Moore. Likewise, the admissible evidence is
insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that suspect
Buck furnished drugs to Gemmel Moore or that suspect Buck
possessed drugs.”

In ruling Moore’s death an accident, the coroner’s office noted
that there was drug paraphernalia found in the home, along with
sex toys and clear plastic bags containing what was suspected to
be methamphetamine, according to a coroner’s report obtained by
the Los Angeles Times.

According to the newspaper, the report also noted that somebody
at the scene “is suspected to be known to exchange drugs for
sex,” but the name was redacted. The report said Moore was found
naked on a living room mattress with a “male pornography movie
playing on the television,” according to The Times.

With the death ruled accidental, however, no arrests were made
and no charges were filed.

Amster has said Buck and Moore were good friends, and told The
Times that Buck did not witness Moore injecting drugs the night
he died. Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, continued to push the
sheriff’s department to investigate her son’s death. She noted
that her son had been living with her in Texas, but Buck bought
him a plane ticket to return to Los Angeles, which he did the
day he died. According to The Times, Moore had previously been
homeless and worked as an escort.

Buck, who is white, has been active in LGBTQ political circles
and also once ran for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/01/09/death-investigation- at-ed-bucks-home/

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