41k people call on police to investigate suspicious death of gay man
Over 41,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the San Francisco Police (SFPD) and Office of the Medical Examiner (OCME) investigate the death of 20-year-old Jaxon Sales, a gay man who died of an overdose inside a stranger’s apartment.
Sales was found dead on March 2, 2020 in the bed of a 41-year-old white male after telling his parents, Angie and Jim Sales, he was going to someone’s apartment for a blind date.
GHB, often called the date rape drug, was found in Sales’s system, along with cocaine and methamphetamine. The medical examiner subsequently ruled his death an accidental overdose. Sales’s parents, who launched the petition, claim that when the OCME discovered that GHB played a role in his death, the Assistant Medical Examiner stated that no investigation was needed because “the gay community uses GHB.” “We believe that if Jaxon was heterosexual, both the SFPD and the SF OCME would have fully investigated the circumstances of our son’s death,” his parents wrote.
Sales’s parents laid out a series of suspicious details surrounding their son’s death that they have urged police look into. Sales’s family found out there was another overdose (this time non-fatal) inside the same apartment only a week before Sales died. “A recent prior overdose in that apartment raises a huge red flag,” his parents said. “Why hasn’t that overdose been questioned?” They also wrote that despite the man telling police there were other people present in the apartment the night Sales was found dead, police have questioned none of them. The man also allegedly gave conflicting reports about whether one or more others were present that night.
Despite even more questions they laid out in the petition, they said that both Captain Timothy Falvey of the SFPD and Serrano-Sewell of the OCME have continuously dismissed their requests to further investigate their son’s death.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/41k-people-call-police-investigate-suspicious-death-gay-man/
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