Douglas Kelvy
Douglas Kelvy, 39, was a skilled heavy equipment operator who had finished trade school, and his family says he adored his 10-year-old son, Damien, calling him every night. He was in a work-release program run through the privately operated Bo Robinson halfway house in Trenton, and he walked away from his approved work site in Burlington on March 13, 2015. He was found dead days later in a Cherry Hill motel room with drugs and syringes, and the death is listed as an apparent overdose. His family says he had been working to rebuild his life and questions how the program allowed him to leave and how drugs and cash reached him.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. News reports say he was found dead in a Cherry Hill motel room with drugs and syringes, and his family questions how the program let him leave and how drugs reached him.
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