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Summer Solstice Vigil June 21, 2018
WHEEL Women in Black stand vigil whenever a homeless person dies outside or by violence in King County. Since 2000, we stood vigil for 830 people. In 2018, the King County Medical Examiner and King County Public Health did an in-depth review of five years of deaths, 2012-2017, and found 162 people who had not been recognized as homeless at the time of their death. WHEEL researched these deaths and found that 82 of them were outside or by violence. These are people we would have stood vigil for at the time of their death, had we known. We chose this special time, the Summer Solstice, to name and honor…
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Additional Outdoor/Violent Deaths 2012-2017
WHEEL WOMEN IN BLACK CORRECTIONS TO OUTDOOR/VIOLENT DEATH LISTS Information recovered 2018 from King County Medical Examiners/Health Care for the Homeless—we’re grateful! CAUSE OF DEATH WHO WHEN WHERE 2012 (13 corrections + 34==47) SUICIDE Ladonna Berry, 45 1/7/12 16838 International Blvd S #145, Seatac HIT BY CAR? William Smith, 69 1/31/12 23400 Block of Pacific Hwy S,…
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2016 WHEEL Women in Black List of the Dead in King County
2016 WHEEL WOMEN IN BLACK LIST-OF-THE-DEAD in KING COUNTY We are grateful to the King County Medical Examiners and Health Care for the Homeless! CAUSE OF DEATH: WHO: WHEN: WHERE: SHOT TO DEATH James Q Tran, 33 January under I-5 at S Atlantic SHOT TO DEATH Jeannine Zapata, 45 January under I-5 at S Atlantic HEROIN OD Jonathan Stanton, 36 January Shilshole SUICIDE Blake Kimble, 31 January North Bend HYPOTHERMIA David Ramisky, 53 January Federal Way OD Tonya Enriquez, 44 February 300 bl 2nd Ave Ext S HEROIN OD Patrick Larner, 60 February E Marginal Way/S Orcas NATURAL CAUSES Donald Parks, 83 February Auburn Park n Ride HEROIN OD Alicia…
