Roughly 200 people gathered outside Victorville City Hall on Tuesday afternoon to protest the hanging death of Malcolm Harsch.
No foul play was suspected in the death of 38-year-old Harsch, according to San Bernardino County authorities. Harsch, a black man, died in Victorville on May 31.
Harsch’s death came a week before another black man, Robert Fuller, was found dead near Poncitlán Square, just east of Palmdale City Hall. Fuller’s death was also a hanging and was initially described by officials as a suspected suicide. Coroner’s investigators have yet to rule on a final cause of death pending the investigation and toxicology results.
In a news conference on Monday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said there wasn’t any evidence the deaths were linked, but that his detectives would talk with San Bernardino County detectives.
In a statement later Monday, San Bernardino County sheriff’s homicide investigators said Harsch had been talking with his girlfriend at a homeless encampment at Circle and Victor drives. Not much later, he was discovered hanging in a tree at 7:07 a.m.
His girlfriend had returned to her tent, then later came out when others alerted her that Harsch was found hanging, a cord around his neck. Residents of the encampment tried to resuscitate Harsch before deputies arrived and also attempted to revive him.
San Bernardino County coroner’s investigators also have not officially determined Harsch’s cause of death. But they said there was no indication of foul play.
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An autopsy was performed on Harsch’s body on June 12, and coroner’s offices are waiting for results of a toxicology report.
Harmonie Harsch, Malcolm’s sister, said on a video on Facebook from her home in Ohio that she doesn’t believe her brother’s death was a suicide.
“My brother is 6-feet-3-inches tall, and that tree was four feet tall,” Harmonie Harch said. “He was tied to a tree with an HDML cord. One question I have is where did the HDML cord come from? Someone took their time with that knot. It was too perfect.”
She said that an unidentified man stole from Malcolm and she believes that man is responsible for Malcolm’s death.
Protesters also lined up outside of City Hall to call for less funding to go to law enforcement and instead be rerouted into other public programs, the Daily Press newspaper reported.
Approximately 42 percent of the money from the city of Victorville’s General Fund in 2019-20 goes toward law enforcement, according to the City of Victorville’s annual budget.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said deputies were near the protest and roughly 200 people were there protesting.
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