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US man dies from stroke days after realtor found him but didn't call for help

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A US family has demanded an investigation after its patriarch reportedly 
died within days of having a stroke in his home and being found but left 
on the floor by a real estate agent who never called anyone for help.

Loved ones of the dead man – 69-year-old Randy Vaughan of North Carolina – 
are raising questions about whether the realtor should have been expected 
to do more. The state agency that oversees realtors in North Carolina has 
indicated it is opening an inquiry into the case and is scheduling 
interviews with Vaughan’s family about his death, the Winston-Salem 
Journal newspaper reported Friday.

“It’s about basic decency, caring for your fellow human beings and being a 
professional,” Vaughan’s brother, Doug, said to the Journal.

The realtor, for her part, reportedly told the Journal she has “an 
attorney involved” and has “no liability”.

According to the Journal, the Vaughans became worried when they didn’t see 
or hear from Randy on his grandson’s birthday. His daughter, Heather, 
drove to his home on 14 February and didn’t see his truck in the driveway, 
so she called authorities to check whether he was at a weekend house along 
High Rock Lake that he was selling.

Local sheriff’s office deputies found his truck outside the home, and 
after using a lockbox code to go inside, they found Randy Vaughan on the 
ground unresponsive, the Journal reported. Doctors determined that he’d 
had a stroke, and they took him by helicopter to a hospital in North 
Carolina.

Things for his family got even worse when they learned from a realtor who 
was working with Vaughan to sell the house that another agent had been to 
his place on 13 February to show it to a client. In an online feedback 
form, that agent described seeing a disrobed Vaughan on the floor and 
fearing that he was possibly dead. But, after hearing Vaughan groan, the 
agent speculated that perhaps he had too much to drink while watching the 
Super Bowl the previous night, and she simply left – without calling for 
emergency medical help – after she asked if he was OK and got no answer.

“I didn’t want him waking up to me standing over him!” wrote the agent, 
identified as Ellen-Nora Deese, according to the Journal.

After doctors informed Vaughan’s relatives that he had suffered multiple 
strokes and developed pneumonia, they opted to move him into hospice care 
this past Monday. He died Wednesday afternoon, not long after having 
retired from a career in the heating and air industry, the Journal 
reported.

Meanwhile, Vaughan’s brother Doug called Deese’s company. Doug Vaughan 
told the Journal that he read the feedback form during a brief 
conversation with the company’s head agent and mentioned the state’s Good 
Samaritan law, which says that anyone in a position to render first aid 
can’t be sued for civil damages for any actions or omissions as long as 
they didn’t intentionally inflict wrongdoing.

Doug Vaughan recalled her saying: “If there’s any litigation, I’m going to 
have to refer you to my lawyer.” He recalled replying with: “Nobody said 
anything about litigation. I just need you to be aware.”

The newspaper contacted Deese and reported that she told the outlet that 
she had an attorney involved.

“I have no liability there,” Deese added, according to the Journal. She 
said she would defer to her company’s broker-in-charge for further 
comment.

But neither the attorney nor the broker-in-charge had returned messages 
from the Journal. Deese didn’t immediately respond to a request for 
comment from the Guardian.

Doug Vaughan told the Journal that he contacted North Carolina’s real 
estate commission to investigate because “no one in their right mind would 
leave a 69-year-old individual on the floor who is non-responsive without 
reporting it”.

“I know she assumed he was drunk,” Doug Vaughan told the Journal. “That 
was a terribly wrong assumption – my brother doesn’t drink.

“Simply, as a professional and as a human in this life, assumptions are 
wrong and can be deadly.”

Vaughan’s son, Jamie, added in separate remarks to the Journal: “The 
reality is, it could have been a different story. With a stroke, it’s 
critical to get care in the first few hours. This is the world we live in 
today?”

Here's the fat bitch realtor, Ellen-Nora Deese.

<https://www.realtor.com/realestateagents/603de030d7b2a90012cb3a24>

Contact details

(336) 523-6333 Ext. 780 Office

JPAR - Legacy Group

280 Charlois Blvd, Suite 202, Winston-Salem, NC, 27103

Check out the 5 o'clock shadow on its face.

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<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/24/randy-vaughn-dies-stroke-
realtor-family-investigation>

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