The speculations regarding Lucas’ sudden death began emerging on social media in the past week.
ANOTHER mysterious death of someone with info on the corrupt DNC?!!? No media coverage though🤔 #shawnlucas #DNCleak
— Kenny (@Kwick13) August 5, 2016
We should spread this! One more victim after #DNCleak! #ShawnLucas pic.twitter.com/ssoegecxYY
— America First! (@America_1st_) August 4, 2016
A month earlier, on July 3, Lucas, who backed Sanders in the presidential run, appeared in the viral YouTube video taken by filmmaker Ricardo Villaba. In the footage Lucas serves the legal papers to the Democratic National Headquarters in a case started by Sanders campaigners.
Lucas was confirmed dead by the company for which he had worked as a process server. In an interview with investigation outlet Snopes, the firm representative said that the young man passed away on August 2, 2016.
According to unconfirmed media reports, the young man’s body was discovered on the floor of his bathroom by his girlfriend. Paramedics, who arrived at the scene at the time, didn’t find any signs of life.
The mysterious death of Lucas is not the first instance of its kind during this election cycle.
On August 1, 2016, Victor Thorn, a prominent author of books about the Clinton family, was found dead near his house. Police presumed he had shot himself in the head with a gun that had been found near his body. However, Thorn’s brother said in an interview with American Free Press that the writer could never commit suicide.