Found Deceased TN - Sanjay 'Sam' Patel, 44, Memphis, 5 Oct 2016

According to the police, Sanjay Patel "AKA" Sam, was last seen leaving 5 Star Wine & Liquor on 2821 Houston Levee with a black male acquaintance in a black pickup truck.

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At 10:20 p.m. on Oct. 3, owner Sanjay Patel left the Five Star Liquor and Wine, 2821 N. Houston Levee, to the care of his wife, Shilpa Patel, told her he'd be back, and climbed into the passenger seat of a regular, friendly customer named Marcus, she said. They were to ride in the pickup to the customer's house.

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On Tuesday, a Bartlett man named Marcus Perry, 34, was found dead by his brother in Perry's home at 9005 Pembroke Ellis Drive, 3.5 miles from the liquor store.
A cause of death was unavailable Friday evening, but a Bartlett Police report states Perry's body was found face-down in his bed, with a Glock handgun pointed toward his head.

The brother told officers on Tuesday that he had not heard from Marcus for seven to 10 days, and broke into the home when no one answered the door.

Memphis Police officers arrived at the house even before some Bartlett Police officers arrived. The Memphis officers told Bartlett authorities that Perry had been a suspect in an open, missing-person investigation, but the Bartlett Police report did not name the missing person.

Bartlett authorities are investigating Perry's death; Memphis Police are investigating Patel's disappearance; and it's unclear what, if any, connection exists between the two cases.

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Tuesday, Bartlett police said evidence found on Perry's phone suggested that Patel was dead. Officers then executed a search warrant at Perry's house and found more evidence that Patel died.

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Darling136 said:

http://www.newswest9.com/story/3341...dence-implies-missing-liquor-store-owner-died

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Bartlett police say they discovered digital media on Perry’s cell phone that leads “the detectives to believe that Mr. Sanjay Patel is deceased.” They say a subsequent search of Perry’s home uncovered more evidence to back-up what they found on the phone.

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JadeSLeuth said:

Sounds like a mess. What situation could possibly need to end with two dead?

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2Hope4 said:

This may be nothing, but a few years ago, a man by this same name was wanted in my county.

http://bedfordcountysheriff.org/hel...iffs-office-identify-and-locate-sanjay-patel/

I can't say for positive it's the same man. We all called him "SAM", though the release from the police said he went by "SUNNY". He was working at the store the day the release came out, and I called the police and told them he was at the store. He was gone when they got there.

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Gardener1850 said:

I feel like it LOOKS like a murder suicide but I just don't know why?!?

Business deal gone bad?

Personal relationship/affair gone bad?

Revenge for something? A mob hit?

:scared:

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Schaber would not discuss what, exactly, that evidence is.

“(It’s) digital media,” she said. “It was not a confession, I can tell you that. We have no suicide note, no confession, nothing like that.”

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Perry has multiple arrests in Memphis for DUI and disorderly conduct. He was also once charged with having a handgun while intoxicated. He does not have a record in Bartlett, Schaber said.

The Bartlett police report says Perry was found face-down in his bed, with a Glock handgun pointed toward his head. Police are still waiting on the medical examiner to confirm that it was a suicide.

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bluesneakers said:

What could it be?

Could it be he was intoxicated and carrying again and unintentionally shot Patel?

Or maybe there's the possibility Patel shot him and ran then killed himself.

No idea what the evidence might be. Unless it's a photo. That's a disturbing thought.

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Mahesana: In yet another incident of killing of a person of Gujarati origin in the US, a native of Mahesana district living in Cardova community of Shelby County in the landlocked southern state of Tennessee, who had gone missing almost a week ago has been found murdered.

The family members of Sanjay Patel, a native of Aakhaj village in Mahesana who had migrated to the US almost two decades ago, said today that he had gone missing from his wine shop on October 11.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The doors were locked and a sign welcoming customers was turned off.

Five Star Wine and Spirits was closed 15 days after the owner disappeared.
"We didn't really know what to think," Danni Nguien said.
People who know Sanjay "Sam" Patel said he is a good guy and loved by many.
"It's a shock. Especially with it being somebody that's literally next door to you and somebody you see everyday," Daniel Brown told WREG.

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Gardener1850 said:

Photo was my thought, but IDK. All I can think is that maybe someone paid Perry to kill Patel and then send evidence. Perhaps he texted a photo of Patel dead and that was on the phone. Since Perry's death strongly looks like suicide but police are not saying this was definitively a suicide there could be evidence to indicate someone else killed him and staged it to look like suicide. It's all very mysterious though!

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