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Update: Motel worker found man’s body under pile of blankets, 911 records reveal

Gainesville Police Department investigated a suspicious death on Aug. 17 at the Haven Inn & Suites, a motel on Jesse Jewell Parkway. - photo by Scott Rogers

08202024 MURDER 2.jpg — Gainesville Police Department investigated a suspicious death on Aug. 17 at the Haven Inn & Suites, a motel on Jesse Jewell Parkway. - photo by Scott Rogers

Gainesville police say that a homeless man who deliberately walked in front of an oncoming train Aug. 17 had killed a man just hours earlier at a nearby motel.