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Residents demand urgent action after two deaths as commission weighs homelessness response
Summary
At a packed City Commission meeting, residents urged immediate action after a man was found dead at Martin Luther King Park and another person was found hanging earlier the same day. Officials described expanded outreach and agreed to form or coordinate committees to improve shelter access, transportation and information sharing.
Residents pressed the Kalamazoo City Commission Tuesday night for faster, more coordinated action on homelessness after two recent deaths raised alarm in the community. Multiple speakers told the commission a man had been found frozen in Martin Luther King Park and another person was found hanging early that morning; several callers demanded transparent public updates and a thorough investigation into the hanging.
Chief Christopher Boysen told the commission the morning hanging was recorded on video and that the person was found hanging from a light fixture at Stockbridge and Mills. "There was no other people involved," Boysen said, and he described the case as a tragic incident involving an individual with a history of mental illness. On the MLK Park case…
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