Suspicious Death Monday Night Appears to Be Homicide

Press release from Eureka Police Department:

Levaugh

The Eureka Police Department is investigating a suspicious death that appears to be a homicide. The deceased has been identified as 56 year old Charles “Chuckie” Levaugh, a transient of Eureka. His death occurred sometime between Monday, December 4, 2017 around 11:35 p.m. and Tuesday, December 5, 2017 around 12:45 a.m. in the alley to the rear the 2039 E Street in Eureka.

We are looking for anyone who knew Levaugh or of any significant events associated with him. We are also looking for anyone who heard a disturbance about that time of night or has a game camera or surveillance system that may capture a person or vehicle in the area during that one hour time period and time leading up to the event. A picture of Levaugh is attached to this release.

Anyone with information or surveillance is asked to contact Senior Detective Harpham. (707) 441-4305

Investigation team sprays for blood

Eureka Police Detective Harpham and investigative team spray a substance that helps blood show up at the scene of the suspicious death. [Photo by Mark McKenna]

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drone pollinators inc.
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drone pollinators inc.
6 years ago

So sad RIP. Seems to be a daily occurrence in humbolt.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

so that means we have over 300? try some actual data, [edit]
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

drone pollinators inc.
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drone pollinators inc.
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Let’s celebrate our city by being second deadliest in California, behind Oakland. Really local. Give me an fn break.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

some real data. the Bay Area is one big hell hole. I lived there and I considered it Hell.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/06/bay-area-homicides-2017-map-and-details/

drone pollinators inc.
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drone pollinators inc.
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Yep your absolutely correct. Lived there done it to. That’s why I no longer live in the Humbolt meth/ weed / heroine shit hole.

Guy
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Guy
6 years ago

Gee. So sorry you’re not here! We really miss that lovely attitude! Why are you following our news then? Why should you care with your attitude?

Neighborhood watch
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Neighborhood watch
6 years ago
Reply to  Guy

Same reason you respond to his reply I’m guessing…. everybody wants to give there two cents ..

Joe
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Joe
6 years ago

Have you ever lived here? I mean you would think you would know how to spell Humboldt… twice you spelt it wrong. No accident there.

amimissingsomething
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amimissingsomething
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Loco Observer, Nothing but Fake News here! [edit]

drone pollinators inc.
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drone pollinators inc.
6 years ago

Once again someone died, or most likely murdered. Danny and Loco seem to try for all end to justify it instead of facing the true fact. Hello a good man lost his life.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

justify? more like exposing fraud, we don’t have 100,000 people to be part of the stats and you are comparing apples to kiwi. the true fact is cutting down plants and praying the other problems that go unfunded will go away is not working out so well.

J Dubbs
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J Dubbs
6 years ago

Good man? Did you know him or have pics of him on your drone?

Ice
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Ice
6 years ago

So for 100 years all news was neutral. Then, all of a sudden. Just because Don Trump ran for office, half of all news in the world went fake overnight…???

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Ice

Really? It has never been neutral. It has made riom for being more scholarly at times. Back in the days after WWII and before … well when did journalists cease being responsible?

The internet was the death of elite journalistic professional standards. Fast counts and the facts be damned. Certainly well before Trump. It was abysmal during Obama’s Presidency.

Now tweeting has become such a routine embarassment that no one dares hold anyone to account. It seems that it is more of a shouting match to rally the fans. It’s a world where every thoughful question is considered an attack on “right thinking” and must be squashed.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

take a close look at the mass shooting location’s for 2017, 326 of them. very similar demographics and most in the interior of the US. back east is a world away in so many ways and seems to be doing just fine, except for the south.

James dean
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James dean
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

[edit]Mass shooting happen so often? It’s fucking idiots that get their dumbass hands on guns. They should have been aborted to begin with

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  James dean

Eliminating idiots prior to birth. Exactly how does that work?

onrust8
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onrust8
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Thanks for the link. Great site!!

John Ripper
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John Ripper
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Yes, I understand Baltimore and DC are peaceful, safe and someone getting shot is nearly unheard of. Likewise Detroit and Chicago, which demonstrate how well gun control & prohibition works.

I find it interesting that north Idaho is about the most peaceful & safe place I`ve been. Of course there is the odd murder once in a while as there always will be. However, it seems those frightening guns have no propensity to jump off the rack and shoot people. Everyone is armed, gun shows every couple of months &held in the high school gymnasium. No permit required to carry; almost everyone is armed.

Much, much more peaceful and safe than Oakland or Humboldt Co. for that matter.

Bob
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Bob
6 years ago
Reply to  John Ripper

You so right nice to see someone that speaks the truth and just spout a talking point. Good job!

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago

All TOO often for a fact!!! Extremely sad indeed!!!

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago

Chuckie’s face is a roadmap of a hard life. Yet I see some positive passion in there too.
Why would a man (person) who faces a hard life, survives under tough-luck situations, meet such an end? Sad to see, for sure.
May Chuckie now be relishing the sense of love, joy, oneness, and a total lack of need. Am guessing that he has earned that.

Sara
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Sara
6 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

At one time he was an absolute wonderful person to be around. Enthusiastic, joking around, loved to play with us kids. But life got hard for him and after his son died as a teenager it got harder. Just a reminder all the homeless people that disgust you are somebody significant to somebody. He was my cousin and he will be missed.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Sara

How did it go so far downhill? From what people are implying, maybe drug abuse but it’s never said outright.

Shel
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Shel
6 years ago
Reply to  Sara

hey (((sara))) sorry for your loss; its hard to lose someone you love, especially if they were not in a good spot. I lost my cousin to heroin years ago. He got clean, got a university scholarship (he was a navy vet) and decided to ‘celebrate’ just one more time. You love them despite their circumstances. I can’t even imagine what you must be feeling, having him taken in such a way. I wish you much peace!

laya goodwyn
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laya goodwyn
6 years ago

Chuck was a baseball coach for Cutten boys teams for many years. He was always good with the kids. Sad to hear how his situation went so downhill for him. May he rest now, with his son, CJ in the afterlife.

Sharpen your pencil
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Sharpen your pencil
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

The whole story of Chuck and his son’s life is tragic to say the least….. At least they are together again…..

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  laya goodwyn

Thank you! With that added knowledge, may those who are programmed (including me, to some degree) to read “transient”, then think ‘low life’, use this opportunity to think twice before we judge.
If Charlie has roots here/ in the place where he was killed, it seems that “transient” is not the best way to describe him.
I looked it up to be sure. The Free Dictionary (on line) describes the term, as most accurately applied to this situation: “1. One that is transient, especially a hotel guest or boarder who stays for only a brief time”.
What you think, Kym? Shall we honor the man with a different description? (Or do we apply the term, because he ‘where he slept’ may have been transitory?).

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Understand. Trust your judgement.

Anon Forrest
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6 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

Yes. “To know a thing’s name is to know [release] it’s true power.” Thanks.

It is all about being in the wrong place..................
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It is all about being in the wrong place..................
6 years ago
Reply to  laya goodwyn

I think (he looks familiar) I talked with him and found him to be well learned. And engaging, although I sensed he had issues, but I think he had an interesting life. Sad he couldn’t pull it together and we could praise his recovery. Regardless of who ended his life I can’t think of one reason why his was a waste of a potential valuable person.

KIDDZZ
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6 years ago

I have encountered Charles before, a few times just out and about. He always seemed like a nice and helpful man. I am sorry to read this.

Andrew
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Andrew
6 years ago

So sad; was cold that night also. Poor guy.

Johnny Reb
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Johnny Reb
6 years ago

Perhaps the church should have lent a helping hand. That’s what they should be doing this time of year especially instead of choir practice and rummage sales.

Homed
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Homed
6 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Reb

The Town Church attempted to provide a place of daily respite from the street. Torch and pitchfork wielding citizens stopped them.

Stephanie B
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Stephanie B
6 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Reb

Perhaps you didn’t know that all the rummage sales this church hosts are fundraisers to help families from this exact demographic. The church and their members personally have provided more subsidized housing, furniture, clothing, food, jobs, support, etc. over the past 8 years for those battling homelessness and drug addiction than any other church in the area that I know of. Just because they don’t advertise all their good works doesn’t mean they don’t do them. I don’t attend church, but they have earned my respect over the years.

Memy Selfandi
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Memy Selfandi
6 years ago
Reply to  Johnny Reb

So true. And we as a community shouldn’t leave it to charity and churches.

Anon Forrest
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6 years ago

Another one? Is the birth rate keeping up? This is so distressful. I’m thankful that my daughter stopped me from retiring up there in SoHum. And I’m really sorry to say that.

Anon Forrest
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6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

My error, sorry. Generalizing is so easy and so wrong. I hope.

Mogtx
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6 years ago

I’m done with commenting good bye

J Dubbs
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J Dubbs
6 years ago
Reply to  Mogtx

Thank you, good bye.

From_Hoopa_w/
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From_Hoopa_w/
6 years ago

I saw this man, a time or two, while i was in eureka. He looked kind of rough, harden I guess. However he was very polite, opened a door for me even. Sad to see him here. Rest in peace, Chuckie.

Little Bones
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Little Bones
6 years ago

Pretty sure I sat in on a trial case this guy was involved in. He was push around a bit in a free food line and he broke his foot. If this is him his slang was so bad the judge could barely understand. Very entertaining guy – the bailiff could barely stay composed. Rip.

Just saying
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Just saying
6 years ago

Layla Goodwyn said with his son in the after life,maybe that’s why his life life turned so tragic. RIP

laya goodwyn
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laya goodwyn
6 years ago
Reply to  Just saying

Yes, when his son died, he was hit hard. He also had some medical issues in his life. He worked for many years as a Taxi driver for City Cab. He and his (now x) worked the food stand for CRRA (kids baseball at cute school). He lost his home about 18 months ago. He was attacked while on the streets, his nose and leg/ foot broken. He would give his last dime to a friend (and it seems they never paid him back) Nice guy, sad hand that life felt him. He can now be out of the cold, resting in peace with his son.

Dragonfly
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Dragonfly
6 years ago
Reply to  laya goodwyn

Thank our county for their anal retentive priorities. Politicians with their own addictions, greed and negligence leading us in a direction of no hope. Thank the SOBs for their betrayal! May
Karma reciprocate their actions three fold.

Memy Selfandi
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Memy Selfandi
6 years ago
Reply to  laya goodwyn

There should be more help for people like him. There is nothing but a few religious charities ..not enough for so many in need. We suck.

Cindy miller
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Cindy miller
6 years ago

This man was raised in Eureka. Went to school here, along with his big sister (my friend) Charlotte. So sad to see ppl I know in the news. Too many my age dying. RIP Chuck. Sorry for the sadness Charlotte. My prayers go out to you.

J Dubbs
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J Dubbs
6 years ago

Sad, transient or not. Also sad to know we have yet another killer on the loose around town. Hope they track the low life down and make him pay.

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

I’m so sorry to his family.Hes a human being and no one deserves to die on the streets,or alley.😢

Brandi
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Brandi
6 years ago

Chuck was my uncle. Some of my most favorite childhood memories are at my aunt and uncle’s place. Uncle Chuck was always fun to hangout with. He taught me alot about being tuff. I haven’t seen him in years. Him and my aunt took care of my son when I couldn’t. For that I will always be grateful. I’m still in shock. RIP Uncle Chuck.

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago
Reply to  Brandi

I’m so sorry BRANDI. God bless and.my sincere condolences 🕊

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago

A lot of the heart, and the goodness of this community is on display in the comments about Chuck. Very nice! Kudos to all!!

unbridled phillistine
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unbridled phillistine
6 years ago

Statistics on serial killers in California are disturbing. Think there are 300 serials loose in the state currently. Not too far of a leap to think we have some up here in the far north state?

Dirtywhiteboy
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6 years ago

Cops out in bville all day busting place about mile marker 25 .12 dfw and sherrifs and chippers

Dirtywhiteboy
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6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

They were there from about 8 until 2 …2 sherrifs trucks and 1 dfw tugging on each other on the highway around 2 rest were up dirt road