For friends of the second man found dead in Ed Buck's apartment, a false narrative of his life deepens the pain

LOS ANGELES - In February, a month before his 55th birthday, Timothy Dean took the plunge into a rooftop pool in West Hollywood. It was a baptism at middle age for a man who was open and proud about his life's roundabout journey.

"I will never have everything all figured out at once," Dean wrote at the time, "but I have enough sorted out now that I can honestly say I'm happy, healthy & centered in my life."

Dean's life was cut short earlier this week. Authorities were called early Monday to the West Hollywood apartment of Democratic activist and donor Ed Buck and found Dean unconscious and not breathing. Paramedics pronounced him dead