For the second year in a row, volunteers found a person dead Thursday during Mecklenburg County’s annual count to assess the state of homelessness.
Starting in the pre-dawn chill, community volunteers pushed trolleys across uptown with sleeping bags, canned food, and water while they fanned out across sidewalks, bus stops and small patches of woods to count the number of people sleeping outdoors.
Nicole Ayers is with the shelter program Roof Above. She was with a group of volunteers who found someone dead…