Biography of homeless man killed
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On most days during my morning walks, it’s just me, my bulldog, and the brightening sky. One day, last August, before honking cars crowded Ditmas Avenue, an ambulance stood in the middle of the street, a motionless body covered in a white sheet on the ground in front of it.
The ambulance was parked in front of Mr. and Mrs. Hall’s home, next door to the small business I own. I saw them peering out their living-room window, the blue and red lights of the ambulance transforming their complexions every few seconds. He can help, they told the EMTs, motioning toward me.
“What’s his name?” an EMT asked, gesturing toward the body.
“Nobody knows,” I replied.
I called him Julio, but maybe it was Refugio. From about April 2020, he and eight other homeless men had slept in a huddle of dirty quilts in front of the so-called nonessential businesses ordered by Governor Andrew Cuomo to lock their doors. For a few months, these men had the streets to themselves.
Because of Covid, they had been released from mental facilities and prisons. When restrictions were eased, returning business owners found more than rats to shoo away when they rolled up their gates.
Julio was about 30 and had come from either Mexico or a place that sounded like “Ha
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Murder of Gregory Glenn Biggs
2001 vehicular murder case
On October 26, 2001, twenty-five-year-old nursing assistant Chante Jawan Mallard murdered 37-year-old Gregory Glenn Biggs, a homeless man, with her automobile, in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The force of the crash lodged Biggs into the windshield. Mallard then drove home and left the man lodged in the windshield of her car, parked in her garage. He died two to three days later, according to police.[2][3] Mallard was convicted and sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for murder, but will be eligible for parole in 2027.[4]
Victim
[edit]Gregory Glenn Biggs was born on August 16, 1964. Although he lived with mental health problems all his adult life, he took care of his son and held a job in construction as a mason. At the moment of the events, Biggs was living in a state of homelessness, but was "on an upswing," according to his mother.[5]
Murder
[edit]Chante Jawan Mallard (born June 22, 1976)[6] is a woman from Fort Worth, Texas. On October 26, 2001, Mallard struck Biggs, a pedestrian, with her Chevrolet Cavalier.[7] At the time, Mallard was believed to have been driving while intoxicated by a combination of marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol.[8