Working Together - Homeless Senior Citizen Saved by City of Redding - Shasta County Supervisors
It is known that homeless folks who sleep right next to busy lighted roads usually are afraid, fearful that they will be attacked. And of course they hold out on the hope that if they are attacked someone passing by will see and have the compassion to come to their aid. Often times senior citizens and the disabled will tell you juvenile homeless will beat and rob them of anything of value. A homeless man named Marcus , who slept on the sidewalk and bus stop on Cypress Ave. taught me this, having had first hand experience. You may remember Marcus, one of my first photos of him dropped off at the same place he was picked up, with a hospital discharge bag tied to his chair.....minus his ankles and feet. Now another poor soul who has spent years suffering in that same parking lot, bus stop with Marcus is quite possibly taking the same path as Marcus, literally walking in the same Valley of the Shadow of Death. Where will this suffering soul recover after his initial hospital care? Th...