Found Deceased TN - Curtis Harris, 81, apartment security guard, Shelby County, 18 Dec 2019

[PommyMommy]

Heartbreaking.

Rest peacefully, Mr. Harris.

 

[Luckyzmom]

Oh No ;( how sad Prayers for family and friends. Godspeed Mr Harris. What a shame. Good call Blurgle, wish LE had checked closer. Terrible what the wife and kids are going through.

 

[Luckyzmom]

Oh No ;( how sad Prayers for family and friends. Godspeed Mr Harris. What a shame. Good call Blurgle, wish LE had checked closer. Terrible what the wife and kids are going through. MOO I know they have limited time and water searches are difficult. Just feel so bad for what family has been going through.

 

[Tripod]

I'm so sad, and sad he wasn't found sooner Like the one lady said in the posted news article, that pond should have been looked into right away. He couldn't have been saved, most likely, but his family would have an answer. RIP, Mr. "Stud" Curtis Harris.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

RIP Mr. Harris.

 

[JerseyGirl]

RIP Curtis

prayers to the family

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It is not clear why no one looked in the pond. A guard rail was bent where it appears the truck went into the water. It’s also not clear when that happened. It would have been dark when Curtis Harris was returning to work from his lunch break. The pond is right next to the drive into the apartment complex. Police will be checking to see if he accidentally turned too early.

81-year-old missing security guard’s body, truck recovered from pond near Ten Mile Creek apartments

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 20, 2020
Family believes critical clues were missed during investigation of missing security guard
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Curtis Harris was found dead in a pond just feet from the property where he had been working.

“That’s the most hurting part, that he was down there in that water and nobody cared nobody cared," wife Adorthy Harris.

Harris believes no one cared because she says she tried repeatedly to get law enforcement to search the pond on American Way by the Ten Mile Creek Apartments where her husband Curtis, a security guard at the complex, ended up after he disappeared a month ago when he went on a dinner break.

[...]

“He called me. Adorthy, he said, it looks like somebody ran off in here. He said it’s oil in the water. He said you need to call the police you need to check this out. I did," said Adorthy.

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“Nobody ever got in the water with a boat to see if anybody was in there until they found him floating on top of the water,” said Adorthy.

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We asked the City of Memphis when crews were informed about the broken guard rail. The city sent us an internal document showing a report was made on Jan. 13, the day the truck was discovered.

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[Dre]

Wow, that would be so hard to swallow, knowing where he likely is but the police not even trying? And he had to float to the surface for LE to realize she was right?! Shameful! RIP Curtis, thinking of your family

 

[Luckyzmom]

What a sorry law enforcement effort ... Public safety ? Possible to get someone into a vehicle to drive out there and look... How apaulling not one employee that could take the time to go look in that pond where the guardrail was damaged . How awful for this man's loved ones , may Mr Harris rest in peace, I hope someone at the city or county feels compelled to apologise for what has happened. Shameful indeed

 

[Moonracer]

I think most of us feared it was a water accident. It's unfortunate that it's so common. RIP Mr. Harris.