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Closing of area shelters leave many without shelter
By Jeremy M. Lazarus
Joe Barrett is back to living on the street.
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Left paralyzed on his left side by a stroke, the 62-year-old Richmond native is among more than 130 homeless people who lost their shelter beds Saturday.
That’s when City Hall closed three winter shelters it had been funding.
for women and children.
It also includes the 60-bed unisex shelter that Commonwealth Catholic Charities operated at 1900 Chamberlayne Ave. in North Side and which Mr. Barrett and others called home during the winter.
Mr. Barrett
That includes two shelters that had operated since mid-November: The 60-bed space for men at United Nations Church in South Side provided in its gym and the 30-bed shelter the nonprofit RVA Sister’s Keeper operated at 2807 Hull St.
By Margaret Stafford and Jim Salter The Associated Press KANSAS
CITY, Mo.
Ralph Yarl was shot at point-blank range in the head by a white homeowner but miraculously survived the bullet to his skull, the attorney for the family of the Black teenager said.
As Mr. Yarl, 16, recovers at home, the 84year-old owner of the Kansas City, Mo. house where the teen mistakenly went to pick up his brothers made his first court appearance Wednesday.
Walking with a cane and speaking too quietly
April 15 has been the traditional ending date for the city’s support of inclement weather services for the winter, and the city contracts with the shelters were written to expire on that date, the Free Press was told.
Sherill Hampton, city director of the Housing to be heard throughout a Liberty, Mo. courtroom, Andrew Lester pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the shooting of Mr. Yarl.
The shooting has attracted presidential attention and renewed national debate about gun policies as people react with shock to a 16-yearold honor student being shot first in the head, then in the arm while making a routine stop in a residential neighborhood.
Some civil rights leaders and Yarl’s family attorney, Lee Merritt, have urged prosecutors to charge Lester with a hate crime, with Mr.
