Via SI: Police: Booster’s death an accident, not a slaying

A University of Alabama football booster died when he hit his head in an accidental fall at home, rather than being slain as first thought, the police director said Thursday.

Police initially described the death of 65-year-old Logan Young as a bloody slaying after a fierce struggle but quit calling it a homicide a day later.

That’s quite a reversal, I must say, given the original report.

8 Comments

1. Indeed. And, frankly, hard to believe.

   Comment by James Joyner — Thursday, April 13, 2024 @ 6:35 pm

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3. Very hard to believe the latest report from the Memphis police Department. The first report was that the memphis police department could not ID the dead man “Logan Young Jr.” until dental records were checked and finger prints were scanned. He was beaten beyond recognition. Some veteran detectives told the media that it was the most brutal crime seen they had worked in over 20 years.

   Now the Memphis police department is saying this old cracker fell down a flight of stairs, bumped his head then went to bed and could not get up in the morning.

   I guess every member on the Memphis police force is either a media whore or the stink of Ol plantation money is still able to buy out the truth and integrity of the Memphis police Department. MPD has had numerous scandals in the past years ranging from running whores, and drugs in Tunica. To operating chop shops and taking bribes. What’s next murder for hire? One federal operation dealing with the corruption of the Memphis police department was called “Tarnished Blue

   Comment by JR Goodwyn — Thursday, April 13, 2024 @ 8:46 pm

4. According the portion of the press conference I heard on the radio yesterday, the body was visually identified by the housekeeper.

   I had heard the dental records thing mentioned by the talk show host, but had not heard it from any official account.

   Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Friday, April 14, 2024 @ 6:52 am

5. Memphis Police Sergeant Vince Higgins said, “We’re treating it as a mystery homicide.”
   Higgins said officials assume the victim was Young but needed to use fingerprints and dental records to confirm the identity.
   Defense attorney Jim Neal says he had been told the body was found by a housekeeper. Reached at his Nashville office, Neal said he received two or three calls about it and they all said Young was found “killed in his home.”
   Young was 65.
   He was free on bond while his lawyers appealed his conviction for peddling the talents of defensive lineman Albert Means.
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   Comment by JR Goodwyn — Friday, April 14, 2024 @ 11:06 am

6. JR,

   All I am saying is that the police spokesman yesterday, a member of the department, but I remember which, stated that they used the housekeeper to identify the body. This doesn’t preclude that they also used other methods, but may quell the notion that he was beaten beyond recognition.

   It may be a nefarious plot on the part of the Memphis police, or perhaps the initial reports were more dramatic than they should have been. Quite frankly, the latter seems more likely to me.

   Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Friday, April 14, 2024 @ 11:18 am

7. I some how want to believe the police over reacted and hope they have learned a good lesson about speaking to the media before the facts are gathered. But…. it is hard to believe that Logan Young was able to walk around the house and take a shower after such a deadly fall and not have the strength to place a call to 911. For conspiracy theories if there was no forced entry into the home, then he had to have opened the door to a friend or loved one or to a person that was pretending to represent a police office or some type of security officer. I guess no one will ever know the truth.

   Comment by JR Goodwyn — Friday, April 14, 2024 @ 9:49 pm

8. I some how want to believe the police over reacted and hope they have learned a good lesson about speaking to the media before the facts are gathered. But…. it is hard to believe that Logan Young was able to walk around the house and take a shower after such a deadly fall and not have the strength to place a call to 911. For conspiracy theories if there was no forced entry into the home, then he had to have opened the door to a friend or loved one or to a person that was pretending to represent a police officer or some type of security guard that patrols the area. I guess no one will ever know the truth.

   Comment by JR Goodwyn — Friday, April 14, 2024 @ 9:50 pm

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