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Boeing whistleblower from Kansas is 2nd to die in past 2 months
A second Boeing whistleblower has died unexpectedly as the company faces scrutiny over safety failures on its passenger jets.
Joshua Dean, a quality inspector for the Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, died this week after a surprise infection left him in critical condition for days, according to his family.
The cause was Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an antibiotic-resistant staph infection commonly known as MRSA, his aunt Carol Parsons told the Seattle Times, which first reported the death.
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The 44-year-old lost his job in 2023 and filed a retaliation complaint with federal labor officials, alleging that he was only fired for speaking out.
Dean had been deposed in connection with a shareholder lawsuit and had reported dangerous faults in components of Boeing’s 737 MAX plane — a model linked to a number of catastrophes in recent years.
The family shared in a Facebook post Monday that doctors warned them Dean had a “50/50 chance of living.”
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In describing the agonizing condition, they revealed the infection had “totally” taken over his lungs and asked for prayers. Days before his death, doctors were considering amputating his hands and feet, but he was too weak for surgery.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Josh and his family,” Dean’s attorneys, Brian Knowles and Rob Turkewitz, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “Josh’s passing is a loss to the aviation community and the flying public. He possessed tremendous courage to stand up for what he felt was true and right and raised quality and safety issues.”
He was being represented by the same law firm that was working for John Barnett, another Boeing whistleblower who police in Charleston, South Carolina, found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9.
“Aviation companies should encourage and incentivize those that do raise these concerns,” the lawyers said. “Otherwise, safety and quality are truly not these companies’ top priorities.”
Barnett, 62, was found dead of a gunshot wound outside his hotel the day after he gave a deposition in connection with his own retaliation lawsuit.
Barnett had sued Boeing, claiming that he had been retaliated against, harassed and spied on by the company. He never showed up for his second day of depositions. His lawyers started making calls, and hotel workers found him dead in the parking lot.
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In January, Barnett told TMZ that he was concerned that Boeing was returning its 737 Max 9 jets to the sky too quickly, after the incident in which an Alaska Airlines jet’s door panel blew off mid-flight.
Boeing has struggled with safety concerns about its 737 Max airplanes.
CEO Dave Calhoun announced that he would step down at the end of the year. Other executives, including the head of the 737 Max program, and board members are also leaving the company amid the fallout.
Barnett said he had learned of the issue while working at Boeing’s North Charleston plant in 2010 and claimed to have raised the issue with management, but to no avail. Instead of tackling the issue, his lawyers allege, the company retaliated against him and subjected him to a hostile work environment, leading to the lawsuit for which he was being deposed.
The Federal Aviation Administration reviewed Boeing in 2017, corroborated some of Barnett’s allegations and ordered the company to take action.
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Oklahoma authorities 'hesitant' to rule teen's death a homicide, famed pathologist suggests
As mystery surrounds the 2023 Labor Day death of Oklahoma teen military hopeful Noah Presgrove, a forensics expert broke down the medical examiner’s most recent findings and shared his theory on what caused the 19-year-old’s death.
Dr. Michael Baden, an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths, told Fox News Digital that Presgrove’s death is a terrible case and that the medical examiner’s report revealed many details surrounding the night he died.
“He had a lot of internal bleeding. So, his heart kept pumping for a little bit after he was struck. But if there’s a possibility that in an ATV accident, he might have a punctured lung and was bleeding slowly. And then, as he’s walking along the highway, the bleeding gets worse, and he collapses, and then a truck hits him and causes all the injuries, on that account. But that would a lot depend on what his condition was when he gets back to the party,” Baden said.
Presgrove was found dead along a rural stretch of US-81 in Jefferson County on Labor Day in 2023. He was last seen alive at a party he attended with a group of friends that night, but nearly a year later, the family says that no one has come forward and told them how he ended up along the highway.
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“My family is strong, but today is hard. We all miss him deeply. No one new has stepped out with different information, so it’s a waiting game,” Noah’s sister, Madison Rawlings, told Fox News Digital.
According to the medical examiner’s full report, after further investigation, it was determined that Presgrove was drinking at a house party where he was involved in an ATV rollover incident. The investigation revealed that Presgrove returned to the party where he got into an argument with his girlfriend after the ATV incident.
“No one new has stepped out with different information, so it’s a waiting game.”
“That is the only part of the party-goers’ stories that match. Each one that we have had the opportunity to talk to claims that a wreck did happen, but he was completely fine; still not sure on who the girlfriend is,” Rawlings said.
“I don’t know what to believe, honestly. Do I think they intentionally killed him? No. Do I think they were drunk and got into a fight with him? Yes …,” Kristen Smith, the mother of Noah’s best friend, Hayden, told Fox News Digital. Smith shares a birthday with Noah, who would turned 20 on Tuesday.
Baden said that due to the level of alcohol in Presgrove’s system, he may not have even been aware that he was severely injured.
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“The issue would be if he had any significant injuries from the ATV, such as internal bleeding. And he’s too intoxicated to think of going to a hospital or a doctor or something,” Baden said.
With the amount of alcohol believed to have been consumed at the party, Baden said the others at the party may not have even realized Presgrove was hurt when he returned, since his injuries were mostly internal.
“They assumed whatever differences of appearance he had was because he was drinking and not because of the ATV injury, which would not have caused him to collapse or anything until enough internal bleeding had occurred, since it was a small leak, a small laceration to the lung,” Baden said.
“Because the only thing that could cause the extent of the injuries to his head and spine would be a car wheel coming over him, you know, or a truck, more likely a truck and probably on the ground. And I think either he was internally bleeding and intoxicated, walking along the highway, and he collapses, and he’s lying there, and the vehicle comes and hits him in the head while he’s on the side of the road.”
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Baden added that Presgrove may not have even realized how hurt he was based on his blood alcohol level.
“So, the one thing alcohol does, it’s an anesthetic agent. And it can cover up pain caused by broken bones or a lacerated lung,” Baden said.
He said after reading the full medical examiner’s report, he believes an auto incident contributed to Presgrove’s death.
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Authorities classified Presgrove’s manner of death as “undetermined,” though Baden says he believes the circumstances surrounding the teen’s death are “consistent with a hit-and-run.”
“If somebody struck him, stopped, looked at him and didn’t do anything about it and took off … that’s a hit-and-run. That could be a homicide kind of thing. So, they’re hesitant to classify it either as an accident or a homicide,” Baden said. “It’s a very sad case … but it’s consistent with a hit-and-run situation being that somebody hit him and didn’t stop.”
Presgrove had recently graduated from high school three months early with plans to enlist in the military alongside his cousin.
Baden, the host of HBO’s “Autopsy” series, was the chief medical examiner of New York City from 1978 to 1979. He has also been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in U.S. history, from the government’s 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Canoga Park structure fire kills two dogs
A structure fire in Canoga Park killed two dogs early Tuesday morning, while another was rescued, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Fire crews arrived to smoke billowing from the home on West Napa Street, just west of Owensmouth Avenue.
The fire broke out at approximately 8:15 a.m.
Firefighters rushed into the single-story residence and rescued one of the three dogs.
The homeowners were not at the property when the fire started, and no injuries other than those to the dogs have been reported.
LAFD said the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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Arizona squatter investigation: Trio arrested in scheme to rent out dead person's home, cops say
Arizona authorities arrested three people accused of a scheme to rent out a dead person’s home and sell two of their cars.
One was found with another dead person’s stolen possessions when he was arrested, authorities said.
Kevin Andrew Strawbridge, 38, Jami Demaria, 30, and Cheyenne Keller, 29, have all been arrested after a month-long Mohave County Sheriff’s Office investigation into reports of squatters occupying a deceased person’s home in the Pebble Lake area, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.
“Through the course of the investigation, Deputies learned that [Strawbridge] and his co-conspirator, [Demaria], were responsible for unlawfully renting the decedent’s home,” read a department statement obtained by the outlet. “Strawbridge and Demaria were also found to be responsible for the theft of three of the decedent’s vehicles and the sale of two of the vehicles.”
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Authorities said that Keller had notarized Stawbridge and Demaria’s signatures on the vehicles’ titles. She also stands accused in a separate criminal case involving the burglary of a man’s home and theft of his car while he was deployed in the military, Fox 10 reported.
While executing one of five search warrants in the investigation on May 10, deputies recovered two stolen vehicles, one unreported stolen vehicle, property that had been reported stolen by other victims, drugs, drug paraphernalia and two firearms, the sheriff’s department said.
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Strawbright, Demari and Keller were all charged with felonies for conspiracy and fraudulent schemes.
Strawbridge was also charged with burglary, possession of stolen property and three counts of theft of means of transportation, all felonies. He was also booked for the burglary of another deceased person in the area, according to the sheriff’s department.
Demari faces additional charges for burglary and trafficking of stolen property.
Keller and Wolf, who were found at one of the locations searched in the investigation, also face felony charges for drug possession and illegally possessing firearms.
The department said an investigation is still ongoing. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office could not be immediately reached for comment at press time.
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