Social worker Ken Williams reported Wednesday that the city has had its first homeless death of 2010.
Williams said the man, Greg, collapsed while on the pier about 5 p.m. Friday.
“A few weeks before, he had helped me with another homeless man, Paul, who we were able to get into the shelter soon after Freedom’s death,” Williams told Noozhawk.
Freedom, a homeless Marine veteran confined to a wheelchair, died in December when temperatures dipped into the 40s. He was the 28th homeless person to die in Santa Barbara in 2009.
— Noozhawk staff writer Lara Cooper can be reached at lcooper@noozhawk.com.
