LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – After a man was found dead in a Henderson home, neighbors say they were put at risk in the weeks that followed.
On June 16, Henderson Police say they located a deceased man while responding to a welfare check.
Summer Gates lives a few houses away from the home where the man was found. Her security cameras captured Clark County workers visiting the property on June 20. FOX5 learned they were Estate Investigators.
Clark County Public Administrator, Rita Reid, said investigators were there to make sure the property was secured and to collect and preserve valuable items.
Gates’ security video shows the investigators spraying down the area, near where the man was found, with a gardening hose. She says she believes body fluid was rinsed down the driveway and onto the sidewalk and street.
Another video shows investigators removing cardboard from the area and placing it in a Republic Services trash bin.
“This can’t be right,” Gates says. “My automatic thought was the children, we have so many kids riding their bikes, and falling on the sidewalk.”
Reid says during the visit, one of the investigators accidentally stepped too close to where the man was found, and was trying to rinse her shoe.
“She was at some point going to go into the home but she didn’t want to go in with that,” Reid said. “She did try to spray off her shoes, and push that over toward the rocks, and in doing that, she did continue to keep cleaning that area.”
Reid says the investigator also sprayed to try to clean up for neighbors and the man’s family. She maintains that no water made it to the sidewalk, and that it was contained to the driveway and rocks in the front yard.
“I don’t think she did any harm other than to create the anxiety of the neighbors and tensions that we’re all seeing right now,” Reid says.
After the June 20 visit, Gates recorded video of what appears to be streak marks running down the driveway and onto the sidewalk.
“It’s hard for us to come to terms with what they did because again, they put all of us at risk,” Gates says.
She filed a complaint with the Southern Nevada Health District, who opened an investigation on July 23. As of Friday, they say their investigation is ongoing.
Reid says Clark County is “fully cooperating” with the Health District.
FOX5 has requested a copy of the complaints that lead to the SNHD’s investigation, details about the inspections they’ve done so far, and whether they’ve ever investigated anything similar.
One week after the Clark County Estate Investigators June 20 visit, a biohazard cleaning company came out to the home for the official cleanup. Reid says the company sanitized the driveway, the rocks and the trash bin.
She says the cleanup took longer than usual because there were issues with the original biohazard cleaning company.
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