The D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examine (OCME) is investigating the possible hypothermia deaths of four individuals believed to be part of D.C.’s unhoused population. The four died in the days after the January winter storm.
Chief Medical Examiner Francisco Diaz told Street Sense the cause of the four deaths will officially be determined once OCME receives the final toxicology report results. The sub-freezing temperatures in late January also led to three deaths in Fairfax County, including one man found inside a tent, according to D.C. News Now.
In D.C., the deaths included a 40-year-old Hispanic man found in the 5300 block of Georgia Avenue NW, a 68-year-old Black woman found in the 1700 block of Columbia Road NW, and a 61-year-old Black man found in an alley off the 1100 block of 9th Street NW, according to the OCME…