Vigil in downtown Dayton remembers homeless who died in 2025

A vigil in downtown Dayton on Friday remembered the nearly 40 homeless people who have died in Montgomery County so far in 2025.

To visualize the loss, 39 pairs of shoes adorned a stage at the vigil, each with the name and age of the person wearing them when they died.

For organizations like Target Dayton Ministries, seeing these names that they helped is sad, but they are glad that they are being recognized…

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