California family wants answers after loved one found dead in French Quarter

NEW ORLEANS — A California family is trying to get answers on how their loved one died while visiting the French Quarter last week. They also want to know if anyone stopped to help him while he was lying on the ground. They are now turning to a private investigator for help.

For a week now, friends and family members of Ameet Kapoor have been asking WWL Louisiana to tell his story. The 49-year-old tourist from the San Francisco area was last seen in the French Quarter in the early hours of Friday, March 6, and originally considered missing. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later confirmed that he died.

Kapoor’s family says he’s a partner with the accounting firm of Ernst and Young. His LinkedIn profile says he is an international tax/transfer pricing professional with 20 years of auditing and taxation experience in public accounting and government tax administration. His family describes him as a brilliant, warm, life of the party, who leaves behind a wife and young son. Friends say he’s a very well-known professional internationally and locally, in California…

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