Police seek information on couple who left dead man at Las Cruces hospital

Las Cruces Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps identify the couple who took a dead man to a local hospital and left before providing detailed information to authorities.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1, a man and woman arrived at Memorial Medical Center in what appears to be a gray or tan four-door sedan with the body of 54-year-old Norman Means and put him in a wheelchair.

“The couple apparently told the hospital briefly that they picked him up in Deming, then the couple left,” said Dan Trujillo, spokesman for the Las Cruces Police Department.

“The hospital didn’t know that he was deceased.”

The couple left the hospital without providing additional information. The man appears to have long hair that’s possibly gray. The woman appears to have brown hair.

Police say Means’ death does not appear to be suspicious as he did not have any visible injuries, was a diabetic and was still recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his abdomen in July 2014.

Las Cruces Police detectives would like to speak with the couple who dropped off Means to determine the location and cause of the man’s death.

“We just want to close the book in this case, we want to find out where he died,” said Trujillo

Means was believed to be a resident of the Silver City area but has also lived in Organ, New Mexico.

If you have information on the couple who took Means to Memorial Medical Center is asked to call Las Cruces Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or send a tip by text message to CRIMES (274637), keyword LCTIPS.

The Crime Stoppers number and text messaging services are operational 24 hours a day and you do not have to give your name to collect a reward.

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