Family plans memorial walk, seeks to reopen investigation of ’85 suspicious ‘suicide’ case

Timothy Charles Lee was found hanging from a tree in Concord in 1985, and his death was immediately ruled a suicide. But given the many questions that have remained unanswered for 39 years, his family and advocates want the case reopened.

Lee, a 23-year-old Black and Native American gay man, was found hanging from a fig tree near the Concord BART station on Nov. 2, 1985.