A troubled man who once lived in Bridgeport took his life in New York’s East Village. How he was discovered and investigation handled by police has his family bewildered. Reports follow that appear in The New York Times and Connecticut Post.
From Michael Wilson, The New York Times:
A neighbor walking his dog in the East Village saw the man one night, sitting motionless behind the wheel inside a parked car. Two days later, he was still there. The windows were up, the engine off–this during an August heat wave. The neighbor called 911.
Soon the block of East 12th Street was busy with police officers and their bosses, the car roped off with yellow tape. There were no signs of foul play. A team from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner arrived that afternoon, Aug. 31, and removed the body to determine the cause of death. People who lived and worked nearby kept their distance.
The police later released the man’s name, Geoffrey Corbis, 61, of Bridgeport, Conn., and said he appeared to have died of natural causes about two days before he was found there.
None of those initial findings would prove true.
Not the cause of death. Not his name. And not the length of time the dead man’s body spent in that car. It was far longer than two days. It is now believed the dead man was there for a full week–a week that his family spent in vain asking the police to look for him.
Full story here.
From Tara O’Neill, CT Post:
When Weglarz was unemployed he one of the people interviewed in a PBS report on the difficulty people 55 and over have finding work. At The Workplace in Bridgeport, Weglarz, then 55, said he was looking for two years and applied for 481 jobs.
“They (employers) think that anybody over a certain age is going to be used up,” he said in the PBS report.
When Weglarz was unemployed he was arrested by Fairfield police after he flew into a rage because of dissatisfaction with his order at a local McDonald’s. Weglarz, who lived on Fairfield Woods Road at the time, had a valid pistol permit for the Glock pistol he was carrying in his waistband.
Full story here.
“Executive function disorder” could include any of several neurodegenerative disorders — including Altzheimers Disease, Lewy-body Disease, et al…
And they’re saying that this guy was out of work for two years, but had the wherewithal to submit an incredible number of resumes/applications, and then land a pretty-high-level, technical job and impress the company owner with his intellectual prowess…
Something doesn’t add up. It doesn’t sound like he had that much trouble with information processing, or even with his “executive functions”…
It sounds like he was a capable, albeit autism-spectrum-affected person that just got beaten down by the socioeconomic turbulence of his times and his inability to maintain adequate social support systems to see him through his difficulties in the context of his autistic personality and perceptions… It sounds very much as if he had incompetent medical/psychiatric diagnosis and treatment…
Very sad. Such an intelligent person relegated to society’s junk-heap and allowed to die alone, in abject, psychic distress… RIP, unfortunate soul… A 21st-Century American story…