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<\/p>\nMother, Police Seek Answers in Mysterious Death of Gay D.C. Attorney<\/b>
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\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n Daniel Potucek, a 34-year-old gay<\/a> attorney for the Transportation Safety Administration was found dead with no visible signs of injury in a Mazda SUV last Saturday morning. It is still unknown how he got there and how he died. The results of an autopsy have not yet been released.<\/p>\n FOX 5 reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n Surveillance cameras<\/a> at a restaurant in the 800 block of Florida Avenue may have captured the last moments of Potucek being alive.<\/p>\n \u201cThen he was in that car from the time of closing until they found him at 7 or 7:20 [a.m.],\u201d said Lorinda Potucek, the victim\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n It was at roughly 7:30 a.m. Saturday when police discovered Potucek\u2019s body in the passenger\u2019s seat of a Mazda SUV. The car belongs to a Northwest D.C. man<\/a> who said he has never met the victim.<\/p>\n He did not want to be identified, but told FOX 5 he parked his vehicle last Friday night just a block away from the corner of Florida Avenue and 8th Street when he went to dinner at Hazel. Instead of driving home, he took Lyft and planned to return for his car the next morning while out on a jog.<\/p>\n Potucek\u2019s mother is still trying to understand why her son would seek out a random car.<\/p>\n FOX 5 did not mention Potucek\u2019s sexual orientation.<\/p>\n Potucek frequented at least one of several gay<\/a> clubs in the neighborhood, the Washington Blade reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n As in all cases of an unexplained death with no signs of injury, the police Homicide Branch, which investigates such cases, is awaiting results of the autopsy and toxicology tests to determine the cause of death. Fields said the findings of the autopsy and results of toxicology tests were pending and she could not say when they would be completed.<\/p>\n Potucek\u2019s mother, Lorinda Potucek, told NBC 4 News that she has many questions about the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son\u2019s death, including how he got into a car that belonged to someone else.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been told that somebody put him in that car\u201d and that the car door had been unlocked, she told NBC 4 reporter Pat Collins. \u201cWe all think, with beyond a reasonable doubt, that there\u2019s more to this story,\u201d News 4 quoted her as saying. \u201cDaniel always has made it home.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to Town nightclub, the gay<\/a> bars located within a two block area from where Potucek was found dead in the early morning of March 31 are Nellie\u2019s Sports Bar, the Dirty Goose and Uproar.<\/p>\n Potucek\u2019s LinkedIn page, which was still online as of late this week, shows he was a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he received his law degree; and received a bachelor\u2019s degree from Duke University in the field of international comparative studies. He has worked at the Department of Homeland Security as an attorney-adviser since 2013, his LinkedIn page says.<\/p>\n Another report from NBC Washington:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post Mother, Police Seek Answers in Mysterious Death of Gay D.C. Attorney<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n