The second gay black man to be found dead inside a Democrat donor’s house in 18 months described him as the ‘f***ing devil’ before his death, it has emerged.
Timothy Dean, who died of an apparent overdose at the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck in January, had been warning friends for months that he was bad news.
DeMarco Majors, who had known Dean for 20 years, claimed to have seen strings of text messages from Buck to Dean trying to get him to go over to his house, which Dean had been ignoring.
‘Don’t you go over there,’ Majors recalls 55-year-old Dean telling him in November last year. ‘I’m not going over there either. S***, I’m not trying to end up dead.’
But two months later, Dean did go over to Buck’s house and was found dead on January 7. Majors told the Daily Beast that he has no idea what changed Dean’s mind.
In total, five of Dean’s friends who claimed to have known him for decades spoke to the Beast, all of whom said Dean was fearful of Buck and described him as predatory.
Walter Harris said Dean had gotten involved with Buck years ago and their relationship involved lots of ‘odd behaviors’Â – such as Buck’s insistence that he wear white long johns – that bothered Dean.
But things changed in 2017 after 26-year-old Gemmel Moore was found dead at Buck’s home.
After that, Harris said that Dean became afraid of Buck and ‘didn’t want nothing to do with [him]’, Harris said.
In text conversations with multiple friends in which they discussed Moore’s dead, Dean described him as a ‘horrible, horrible man’, ‘the f***ing devil’, and mused ‘this might be it for Ed Buck’.
In the end, no charges were filed against Buck after Moore’s death, though the investigation has been reopened since Dean died.
Speaking about Dean’s death, Buck’s lawyers say that Dean reached out to him while going through a hard time.