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the fingers of reason
Joined: 12 Nov 2007
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 Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: former basketball player killed |
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I don't know how to post links, (computer illiterate), but here is a warning to everyone out there, especially young people coming here to teach. Never give your passport to anyone, for whatever reason.
A man I went to college with was found dead in Brazil yesterday. He had been missing for about ten days. He played college ball at Washington State and actually played a year here in Korea. Apparently his former coach had spread some rumors about him. He returned to Brazil to play for his former team, under a new coach. He felt uncomfortable there and wanted to return to Seattle, where his wife is due next month. He relinquished his passport to the team and was enroute to Brasilia to get a replacement.
The details afterword are sketchy, and I still believe that most people are good, but your passport is the most important thing in your possession. Never give it up without you being present.
RIP Tony Harris |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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SAO PAULO, Brazil � The body of an American basketball player who was reported missing two weeks ago, was found in the middle of a dense thicket in the central state of Goias, police said on Monday.
Police spokesman Norton Luiz said by telephone that the body was that of Tony Harris, a former Washington State University basketball star who was under contract to Universo, a professional Brazilian basketball team based in Brasilia, the country's capital.
"Thanks to an anonymous phone call, police found his body on Sunday slumped against a tree in an Army training ground and with the shoelace of one of his sneakers wrapped around his neck," Luiz said. "We believe he may have committed suicide because it appears the body fell from one of the tree's branches, although we are not ruling out homicide."
He said that "judging from the body's state of decomposition," Harris died some five days before he was found inside the Army training ground near the small town of Formosa.
He said Harris' father-in-law and a family friend had arrived in Goiania, capital of Goias state, to make a positive identification of the body, which should be flown back to the United States in a few days for burial.
The American embassy confirmed the arrival of the father-in-law and a friend but declined to comment further until the body was positively identified.
Harris was reported missing Nov. 4 just three days after his debut as a shooting guard for the Brazilian team, said Jorge Bastos, one of Universo's directors.
"According to some of the other players, Harris appeared to be nervous and overly anxious about something," Bastos said by telephone. "But he never said what was bothering him."
Harris, who would have turned 37 on Sunday, left Oct. 31 to play basketball for Universo. His wife last heard from him on Nov. 4.
Harris played for the 1994 WSU team that made it to the east regionals of the NCAA tournament, and before that on state championship teams at Garfield High School in Seattle.
After college, Harris played in Asia and South America, including a previous stint in Brazil.
He returned to Seattle and most recently worked as a counselor at Echo Glen, a juvenile rehabilitation facility. But that job ended when he
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| So, who killed this guy? |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| So, who killed this guy? |
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