ATLANTA — Cornelius Taylor’s promise to visit his family this past Christmas was one of many he had broken in his decades living on the streets. But Darlene Chaney could not stay mad at the troubled cousin raised as her brother. When he called soon after the holiday from the encampment he called home, she made plans to take him to a movie.
They never spoke again.
A few weeks later, a clearance crew descended on the Atlanta site, and its heavy equipment crushed his tent as he lay undetected inside…