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Landscapers in North Carolina mistook a man's body for a training dummy and left it sitting in the front yard of an empty house for days, even mowing around it. The body was eventually reported to the authorities, and an investigation is underway. The police clarified that the initial reports of the body being mistaken for a Halloween prop were incorrect. The cause of death is still unknown, pending the toxicology report.
A Connecticut couple, Robert Shaw and Sharon Bourgeois-Williams, were charged with disorderly conduct after verbally attacking two Puerto Rican landscapers and accusing them of being in the US illegally. The confrontation began when the couple approached the brothers to complain about noise, but quickly escalated into racist remarks and harassment. The couple was arrested for preventing one employee from moving freely in the roadway. Relatives of the landscapers stated that the men were simply doing their job and had not stepped foot on the couple's property.
A group of 14 landscapers working alongside I-80 in Berkeley were fired upon by a passenger in a passing white Ford Crown Victoria. The suspects were described as Black male adults with short hair. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident, and there is no known motive at this time.