LEFT FOR DEAD
Mystery as shock surveillance video shows body with ‘no signs of trauma’ being dumped from car by unidentified man
MYSTERY surrounds a man's death after surveillance video showed his body being dumped from a car by an unidentified person.
Police in Pennsylvania said that there were no signs of obvious trauma on the victim, whose body was found on May 7.
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The medical examiner's office identified the remains as that of 43-year-old Lavarr Carroll, a well-known landscaper in the South Hills area of the state.
Tributes to Carroll were shared across social media as people described his funny and kind personality.
Meanwhile, homicide detectives in Allegheny County are investigating why the man’s body was dumped in an alley Sunday morning around 4am.
Surveillance footage from a nearby business showed a man in a blue T-shirt leaving a vehicle and spilling liquid in the parking lot before reportedly dumping Carroll’s body. The man then sped away.
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“Nothing ever like this has ever happened. I was so shocked to hear it,” neighbor Marion French told local news outlet
French, who has lived near the alley for seven years, said that everyone in the neighborhood is welcoming and kind.
“I just hope it’s not someone around here who caused this.
"I’d like to be able to sit on my porch and say hi to everyone and ‘God bless you’ and so on.”
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Authorities said they recovered the vehicle used to dump Carroll’s body. The public was asked to come forward with any information about the incident.
“I always take this route, I saw the commotion and everything so I circled the block, and all the neighbors told me what had happened,” said Azizi Obasefu, who also lives in the area.
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“We never make the news, so, this is a tragedy of course, but that doesn’t occur here.”
Few other details about Carroll's death have been released.
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