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I was driving through an area some distance from home and stopped at a remote gravel lot off the interstate where there was a food truck. When I pulled in I noticed a car with Uber and Lyft stickers. Its lights were on but no one appeared to be in it. I hoped the driver would get back before the battery died.
I parked a few cars away (this seemed to be an unofficial commuter lot) and went about my business making some calls and checking email. About 20 minutes later I walked over to the food truck to get a soda. I didn't pay attention to the car until on my way back to mine. As I walked past it I noticed through the back window what appeared to be someone reaching from the back seat to the front. It looked odd.
There was room enough on the passenger side for me to pull in so I got my car and moved it next to that one. When I got out of my car and looked into the passenger window I was quite sure there was a dead person in there. I called 911.
I pulled out and away from the car and waited. When the first deputy arrived he approached the car with his firearm out. He holstered it after looking in the driver window and tried the door. Both driver side doors were locked. He went around to the passenger side and opened the rear door. He gasped, slammed the door, turned, and gagging, moved off 10 to 15 feet and threw up. I knew then for sure there was a body in the car.
The cops interviewed me and I never found out much. A deputy just told me it didn't look like violence. Maybe a drug overdose.
Thoughts and compassion out to the family and friends of this person.
Could've been a suicide. My GM at the restaurant I worked at closed on a Friday night and when she opened Saturday morning she noticed a parked car near the dumpsters that she thought she had seen there when she left the night before. She walked over and saw a body. 19 year old kid shot himself while sitting in his car.
As an aside, beautiful area there just below the Shenandoah Valley and the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Great drive that if you ever get the chance. Just don't stop for tacos apparently...
Thank you, OP, for actually noticing and doing right by this poor rideshare brother.
Article states that the red brick building with bad paint USED to be tourist information center.
Judging by peeling paint and age of Permanent POP CORN SIGN i would say 8-12 years ago.( conservative . probably 15+)
Still.
Tourist Info sites are placed in high traffic areas.
Well . . . YOU are a Suspect. . . until all coroners reports come back in.
Uber on.
( what were you doing in the area again ?)
( also body discovered officially after noon. Photographs taken around 1:30 p.m. STILL FOGGY. deputies wearing jackets, cool front came through. Fog from body of water residual heat pictured across road. Temps were not HIGH enough for the body to smell in LESS than 3 days !)
Perhaps there was a second body and a murder/suicide was in place?
Could of shit himself and threw up a few times from a overdose as well. Which would lead to a nasty smell.
I don't feel bad for junkies at all. Boo @@@@ing hoo they die from a overdose. They know the risk.
" perhaps" his Last " pax" drove around with him in the trunk for 3 days . . .
Perhaps last " pax" was checking his " cut" on new shipment of drugs. And discovered it was. Too " "hot" and needed to be cut more.
College just started down the road last week . .
According to article below this one.
Perhaps there was a second body and a murder/suicide was in place?
Could of shit himself and threw up a few times from a overdose as well. Which would lead to a nasty smell.
I don't feel bad for junkies at all. Boo ****ing hoo they die from a overdose. They know the risk.
OP never stated he pointed his gun at him, he had just unholstered it walking towards the car then strapped it back. Cops have no idea if they are walking towards any kind of trap towards parked cars from 911 callers initially ..
He also could’ve been diabetic who needed insulin. The cop may have seen a needle and thought an OD. He could have been laying in the back seat because he didn’t feel good, and then was reaching for his insulin and/or phone to call for help.
He also could've been diabetic who needed insulin. The cop may have seen a needle and thought an OD. He could have been laying in the back seat because he didn't feel good, and then was reaching for his insulin and/or phone to call for help.
I was driving through an area some distance from home and stopped at a remote gravel lot off the interstate where there was a food truck. When I pulled in I noticed a car with Uber and Lyft stickers. Its lights were on but no one appeared to be in it. I hoped the driver would get back before the battery died.
I parked a few cars away (this seemed to be an unofficial commuter lot) and went about my business making some calls and checking email. About 20 minutes later I walked over to the food truck to get a soda. I didn't pay attention to the car until on my way back to mine. As I walked past it I noticed through the back window what appeared to be someone reaching from the back seat to the front. It looked odd.
There was room enough on the passenger side for me to pull in so I got my car and moved it next to that one. When I got out of my car and looked into the passenger window I was quite sure there was a dead person in there. I called 911.
I pulled out and away from the car and waited. When the first deputy arrived he approached the car with his firearm out. He holstered it after looking in the driver window and tried the door. Both driver side doors were locked. He went around to the passenger side and opened the rear door. He gasped, slammed the door, turned, and gagging, moved off 10 to 15 feet and threw up. I knew then for sure there was a body in the car.
The cops interviewed me and I never found out much. A deputy just told me it didn't look like violence. Maybe a drug overdose.
Thoughts and compassion out to the family and friends of this person.
They will be questioning OP tomorrow or the next day.
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