Arlington Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found on top of a sleeping bag inside his rented storage unit.
Police said they were called to a Public Storage on South Cooper at about noon Monday after a private investigator looking for a missing man found his body instead.
Officers said the man was deceased when they arrived and tentatively identified him as 27-year-old Debony Maffett II. Police said a positive identification and cause of death will be confirmed by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office.
Though they didn't believe he was in imminent danger Maffett's family reported him missing on March 27, four days after he was last seen at the convenience store where he worked.
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Police said officers attempted to locate Maffett by tracking his cell phone and when that was unsuccessful they entered him into a missing persons database to alert other law enforcement agencies to their search.
A private investigator helping the family find Maffett learned he purchased a storage unit and may have been living out of it, police said. According to police, when the private investigator went to check the storage unit, that's when he found the body inside.
Police did not say whether there were any signs of foul play or what may have led to Maffett's death.
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The investigation into the man's death is ongoing pending the results of an autopsy by the medical examiner's office.
