Nonprofit in LA to honor lives lost to homelessness with memorial service

Community and faith groups will come together at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles to remember the lives lost to homelessness on the longest night of the year.

Interfaith leaders say this past year on the streets of LA and Ventura counties, 1,564 people died alone, while experiencing homelessness.

Jessica Echeverry heads up a nonprofit that makes life-saving connections with people experiencing homelessness. She says last April, a 70-year-old man who sheltered here died alone. The medical examiner reported his name was Kevin Campbell and he suffered a heart attack…

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