Timothy was dead for a week in Seattle’s Discovery Park, lying halfway inside the door of his tent, when an officer investigating rumors of “a body in the woods” finally found him on March 31. The coroner determined he died of hypothermia and exposure.
Michael died alone in a tent, too, on April 9, in the middle of a crowded homeless encampment at Seattle’s Rotary View Park. A fire truck crew was flagged by someone who led them to Michael’s tent. They pulled him out to render aid, only to discover his body was already stiff. Michael’s pockets contained what was left of his fentanyl and crack cocaine. A responding officer put the drugs and some cash from Michael’s back pocket into an empty Narcan box sitting next to his body.
Shawn died on April 14, folded in half in his tent at Sunset Park in SeaTac, nose bleeding and face-down in a pool of his own vomit. Clutched in his right fist were a lighter and blowtorch, in his left a pack of cigarettes. The day before, Shawn had declined resources offered by a park employee…