CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS FATALITIES - 2011 Source: Las Vegas Review Journal, 12/15/2011, page 2B Reported by: Lynnette Curtis "Each December since 1996, Lera-Randle El [Director of the Straight from the Streets homeless outreach program]has organized a vigil to memorialize homeless people who died during the year." Some of the homeless who died this year were found in empty lots or desert areas, according to the annual list compiled by the county coroner's office. Two were found dead on the sidewalk. Another two were beneath freeway overpasses. Three women and 47 men are on the list. The youngest was 32. The oldest, Richard Garcia, was 85. He died in August….". "Four of the deaths were caused at least in part by exposure to the elements. Drugs or alcohol were involved in at least 15 of them. Three who died were military veterans. Nineteen of the deaths were ruled accidents." 2011 Fatalities ALCORN, Elgin Anthony LOSBY, Peter A. ALVAREZ, Renato B. ARMSTEAD, Johnny Lee NEWSON, Hubert Lee ATTAKAI, John NICOLOV, Metodi NUNEZ, Leopaldo Armando BARTLETT, Vincent Michael BASKAS, Leo Daniel, Jr. OSBORNE, Michael Glynn BERNSON, Robert Allen BIGELOW, Buddy R PATT, Jeffery Chandler PERKINS, Keith David COPENHEAVER, Steven CUSHING, Charles READING, Drew Lamont REEVES, Jesse L. DANEAU, James Albert RUSHWAM, Daniel Edwin DAVIS, Luke Emde RYE, William Oscar DYKES, Jimmy R. SCIALABBA, Salvadore Vincent FRUITT, Jodi Ann SHAHEEN, Gregory John SHO A AHARI, Djafar GARCIA, Julian Diaz SIDDEN, David GARCIA, Richard GETTS, Jimmy Lee TERRELL, Jeffrey GOODMAN, Marcus Wayne THOMPSON, Peter Kraig GOWAN, Robert GREEN, Wayne VO, Namc Phuc HAUGHEY, James WAGNER, Sharon Lee HICKS, John WALKER, Daniel HUFF, Patrick WARD, Sheryl A. JORDAN, Erick Charles WILLIAMSON, Bert Stanley WILSON, Jimmy KIERSTEAD, Howard David WILSON, Robert Jomo KLEIN, Joseph