The stays of a longtime freelance author in Las Vegas have been discovered final week inside a container at a downtown enterprise, authorities stated.
Las Vegas police stated in a information launch that they found the physique of Matthew Kelemen, 56, whereas responding to a report “of a foul-smelling odor” coming from the container.
Kelemen’s trigger and method of demise have been nonetheless beneath investigation, the coroner’s workplace in Las Vegas stated.
Police stated they recognized Kelemen’s 63-year-old roommate because the suspect in his demise. However the suspect died final week after crashing throughout a high-speed automobile chase involving the Utah freeway patrol, police stated.
The automobile chase was unrelated to the investigation into Kelemen’s demise, police stated, however the division didn’t give additional particulars. It additionally has not recognized the kind of enterprise the place Kelemen’s physique was discovered or a potential motive.
Kelemen’s sister, Mikki Zaferatos, informed the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal that her brother had been planning to maneuver out of the room he was renting in a home additionally occupied by the suspect.
Zaferatos stated her brother “was actually uneasy dwelling there” and that he had described his roommate as “unusual”.
For 20 years, Kelemen contributed movie critiques, profiles, characteristic tales and extra to native publications, together with Las Vegas Weekly. A brief story he wrote about Donny Osmond’s Strip residency printed over the weekend in Las Vegas Journal.
Kelemen moved to Las Vegas in 2003 and had been a workers author for a number of years on the now-defunct 944 and Metropolis Life magazines, the Evaluation-Journal reported.
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