Police are investigating the death of an Arkansas man whose naked body was allegedly found next to a sleeping TV weatherman in a hot tub after a night of drinking and drugs.
The owner of the home awoke Monday morning to find the body of 24-year-old Dexter Williams at the bottom of an empty tub, his face blue and purple and a chain resembling a dog collar around his neck, according to a Maumelle Police report.
Asleep next to him was KARK meteorologist Brett Cummins, 33, who had arrived at Christopher Barbour's home outside Little Rock accompanied by Williams around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Barbour told police.
The three drank and snorted drugs, though Barbour told police he did not know what kind, Officer Gregory Roussie said in a report. The three continued drinking in the hot tub until Barbour retired for the night around 11 p.m., falling asleep on his couch.
Barbour awoke to the sound of Cummins snoring and discovered the two in the hot tub, which had been drained of water, he told police. After he awoke Cummins, the two realized that Williams' face was discolored and his skin cold to the touch, prompting Cummins to scream and run to the living room, where he vomited, Barbour said.
Maumelle Police and fire rescue arrived at the home around 8:10 a.m. and found Williams' body in the tub with blood pooling around his head, Sergeant David Collins said in a report. In the master bedroom he found a pill bottle next to a pair of khaki cargo shorts on a storage ottoman at the foot of the bed.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday, Lieutenant Jim Hansard said.
KARK reported the incident on its website Tuesday, acknowledging that Cummins was at Barbour’s house.
"Our Meteorologist Brett Cummins was at the home at the time of the death and we felt we should share this with our viewers," the report said. "Brett will not be on the air as he is mourning the loss of his friend. Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Dexter Williams."
Cummins has not responded to calls or written requests for comment, and police said they are not releasing preliminary autopsy results for Williams.
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gross.
I'm from Memphis, this story broke 2 days ago, CNN,tell the story right and in a timely fasion next time.
Cloudy with a chance of sodomy!!
I ain't dead, I'm just sleeping!
These religious zealous spouting the scripture for everything that happens really annoy me....usually they are the freaks beating their wives and children along with other evil crimes in the name of God. Get a life already!!! Don't blame God for all the ills of this society...it is man not God that causes this mess.
Totally sick.
I have no sympathy for those pervs.
Dog collar around neck, drugs, alcohol, hot tub, DEAD. What a lifestyle!
"I have no sympathy for those pervs."
Sick is also having no compassion. Welcome to their level.
They neither want nor need your "sympathy". Gays have the same right to be together as heteros, you idiot.
Why not? Do you not believe adults should be free to make their own choices?
Shecky ='s Kevin Smith's dogs name
Repentance is for what you did that was bad in the eyes of God. Without the bible, we would have no way of knowing what to repent for...we would be stuck with what 'holy men' told us about God's thoughts on matters like these. This dead gay person has paid his dues...he paid for his sins with his very own life and has a clean-slate with God, who promises to bring him back to life and give him the opportunity to come to know Jesus without the evils of todays world confusing everything. That is when this man will be judged, not now as your idiotic 'holy man' told you.
Nah, poor kid will dry rot and turn to dust just like the other two and everyone else. The planets will continue to rotate and life will go on just like they never existed. Too bad people like you don't accept that simple concept.
The bible is what "holy men' (not God) told us. It is only the word of those men that tells us the words they wrote were those of God. Belive what you believe, but Epicurus circa 300 B.C. got it right, and is the last to do so, with his quote on the gods.
Huh? What kind of heretical nonsense are you preaching? I can tell you that it's nothing close to what you think it is.
Your dumb!!!
"Sins"? Maybe to you. The gay person was born that way, and certainly did not just decide to be gay. You have a really twisted outlook re: other people's lives, and I will bet my last dime you're from the SOUTH. The poor dead guy didn't "pay" for anything–he's just dead and gone. Moron.
Don't believe everything y you read in books! all "GOD" had a good publisher period.. birds were her b4 man insects were here b4 man dino's trees grass flowers water air rocks .. science people science! its 2011 not 1800
Consenting adults doing stuff consenting adults do. No mythical deities involved, or repentance required by anybody.
I checked the 10 Commandments looking for guidance on what they should or should not have done. Found some very useful gouge on not coveting my neighbor's oxen or working on Sundays, but nothing specific on wearing dog collars and overdosing in a bathtub while getting my freak on. Dang. What's a guy to do without any specific guidance from the Big G?!
please insert your bible in your anus....
Maybe they were arguing over who got to wear the dog collar next...
@Jonathan...you obviously didn't understand my posts, or you wouldn't have posted what you did.
I think it's time to look for a new line of work. Every day is going to be a rainy day on the tube....
Just because Jesus loves you does not mean that he loves what you've been doing to each other all night long in a bloody hot tub replete with dog collar and death. Get it?
Give Jesus a rest, will ya? I'd follow Buddha before I followed the christian version of Jesus any day. Your version of Jesus is too full of contradictions to take seriously.
@Steph AK is Alaska. AR is Arkansas. And I agree with you.
What's wrong with a little blow and booze enhanced ho.moer.ogenous asphyxiation between friends?
Haha my thoughts exactly
Sounds like a made for TV special to me.