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California City Residents Demand Answers After Black Man Found Hanging From Tree

Los Angeles County officials said Robert Fuller's death was likely a suicide. Fuller's body was found Wednesday in a park in Palmdale. Public officials are joining those already demanding answers.

A growing number of residents and officials in Los Angeles County are demanding answers in the death of a black man whose body was discovered hanging from a tree.

Robert Fuller's body was found early on Wednesday in Poncitlรกn Square park in Palmdale, Calif., a commuter city roughly an hour north of Los Angeles. The 24-year-old's death.

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