Timothy Charles Lee's death was ruled a suicide, but several factors have made his family and advocates suspicious, including the way his sister's name was misspelled on the alleged suicide note, the Concord Police Department's destruction of evidence within 24 hours of his death, and the fact that two other Black men in the Concord area were...
Timothy Charles Lee was found hanging from a tree in Concord in 1985, and his death was immediately ruled a suicide. But given the many questions that have remained unanswered for 39 years, his family and advocates want the case reopened. Lee, a 23-year-old Black and Native American gay man, was found hanging from a fig tree near the Concord BART station on Nov. 2, 1985.
A Concord resident found Lee around noon on Saturday, his body hanging from a tree in a vacant dirt lot off Mt. Diablo Street. News clippings from the time reported that then Concord Police Chief George Straka said there were no signs of a struggle at the death scene and that medical reports showed Lee's neck was not broken by the hanging, which would have been indicative of foul play.
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