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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   
      
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