If I am remembering correctly, he had hung himself and was still alive when found but died shortly thereafter. It may be mentioned earlier in this thread.
Since the initial Texas DPS post last February, we've learned more facts from both Unidentified Persons/Namus and the Harris County Institute for Forensic Sciences-- which I'm referencing to help clear up a few discrepancies that it appears are being perpetuated about the unidentified male.
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Sorry to hear about your friend. I appreciate the info you shared, I didn’t know that but it makes sense.Since the initial Texas DPS post last February, we've learned more facts from both Unidentified Persons/Namus and the Harris County Institute for Forensic Sciences-- which I'm referencing to help clear up a few discrepancies that it appears are being perpetuated about the unidentified male.
Reportedly, the young man was unresponsive when located inside an abandoned bus (school bus??) and transported to a hospital (Ben Taub) where he later expired. The ME determined the young man was a victim of suicide. However, I don't think a violent injury the reason that the photo was edited to add a t-shirt to the corpse.
While DPS Missing Persons Clearinghouse records provide the decedent's cause of death as suicide, this is incorrect. Suicide is in fact the manner of death, and the cause of death is not yet released per the available links.
Throughout the country, including Harris County, TX, there are generally five manners of death (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, and undetermined), where manner is the determination of how the injury or disease leads to death.
To be clear, the cause of death is the specific injury or disease that leads to death. For example, asphyxiation is the 2nd leading cause of suicide in the U.S.
I could not find any linked evidence that supports hanging.
Reportedly, the youth was found unresponsive inside a bus at 6260 Westpark Drive, Houston, Tx -- an area where people are known to loiter.
The address also corresponds with a 115,001 square-foot, twin modern professional high-rise building in the middle of Houston, near the Galleria, an upscale shopping mall (see building lot photo at the link below). It's also known as the Westchase neighborhood, which is known for its connection to the oil industry.
I believe the lot area is checked often and probably why the victim was soon transported to a hospital where he later died. I also wouldn't be surprised if the lot was used for off-site parking for Galleria employees where they're shuttled to the mall and the bus left in the lot overnight. Given the month of January, I think it plausible the young man entered the bus for shelter from the cold.
Last but not least, at the moment of death, all of the muscles in the body relax, a state called primary flaccidity. Eyelids lose their tension, the pupils dilate, and the body's joints and limbs are flexible. And more likely than not, the jaw often falls open. This is very natural and certainly not any indication of a specific cause of death as some have posted.
For example, I can attest how less than a week ago, while at the bedside of a dear old friend when she expired, her mouth was open very similar to the unidentified decedent. The difference here was probably that she was a patient at a private hospice facility where available staff soon attended and placed a couple of rolled-up hand towels beneath her chin and neck area to lift the jaw and/or close the mouth, while we waited for the funeral home to collect her body. IMO, the unidentified victim likely died in the ER and was transported to the morgue, when convenient-- where he was later photographed in his natural state.
TxDPS Missing and Unidentified Persons Online Bulletin
Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin, Browse photos and searchable bulletins of missing persons, abductors, and unidentified persons, a central repository for information and pictures of missing and unidentified persons in Texas.www.dps.texas.gov
Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP87935
View NamUs unclaimed person case UCP87935 for -- -- missing from Houston, Texas. Date body found: Jan 10, 2022. NCMEC case number: --.namus.nij.ojp.gov
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One thing I noticed as well is that John Doe appears to have a widows peak while Nery Sis Chen does not.
im not exactly sure but my theory is that he was found by a passerby. people were known to loiter in and around the bus so it wouldn't have taken long for him to be found. i would assume by a homeless individual or someone along those lines.
cali too. it was cool about 3 years ago, then made fun of and now its popular again. 2 of my kids have it.
Keeping in mind that hanging in this case is all speculation, clinical death can take a good bit longer than 30-60 seconds.There's multiple possible causes of death by hanging, with variable lengths of time for each to occur (broken spine vs. cerebral hypoxia vs. suffocation, etc.)
Thanks for looking into this. Although the title of this thread says it was a "school bus", NamUs only describes it as "an abandoned bus in the parking lot of an office building". It could well be more like the ones in the street view image you shared that was taken in 2020. MOOI was hoping when I checked back that this young man would be identified. So sad to see he is not.
I wanted to look more into the place he was found. I was imaginig desolate by the description, but he was found in a bus in a multi-plex type office. If you do the street view it takes you through the parking lot of the location, which has buses and lots of cars parked:
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6260 Westpark Dr, Houston, TX 77057 | LoopNet
6260 Westpark Dr, Houston, TX 77057. This Office property can be viewed on LoopNet.www.loopnet.com
Oop, you're right, I don't know why I assumed school bus!
Brain fart. I'll ask for a title change.so was it something like a church bus? i couldnt find images of the actual busOop, you're right, I don't know why I assumed school bus!
Doubtful. This location is a business park (near the city center) where it's most likely a shuttle-type bus. JMO
yeah, thats the word i was looking for. i agree. thank you!
good luck finding anything about this case! theres minimal info about him is on two databases, and that's it. No MSM, no press releases (unless its well hidden and i have not found it), nothing. Houston PD even keeps a log of all their news releases and he's not mentioned. I'm guessing because it was ruled a suicide?? because they seem to list 'investigations into deaths' in these logs as well. I find the lack of MSM coverage very very strange honestly, I feel like its rare to come across current juvenile UID cases where there isn't at least one report or one media snippet.
Yes and many runaways in Texas are from Guatemalia. NAMUS will say "left sponsor's residence". One person left because "he didn't want to go to school"More underage migrants came to Harris County in 2021 than anywhere else
Harris County is the top destination for the record numbers of unaccompanied minors...www.houstonchronicle.com
I believe the lack of press and inquiry for the decedent is because he's likely from a foreign land. Hundreds of unaccompanied youths continue to be resettled in the Houston area each month.
Around 90 percent of the migrant kids arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border without parents or official sponsors in 2021 came from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador. Some 15,000 of these migrant youths were released to sponsors in Texas, more than any other state.
