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Article: TWO KILLINGS IN LOWELL PUT HOMELESS ON EDGE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1988
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LOWELL - Tim Scanlon, sober now for 17 days, spends his
waking hours in the kitchen of an emergency shelter, serving hot
soup and words of warning for the people who inhabit the street.
Two brutal murders within three days have put many in this
city on edge, but especially the homeless, who count the victim of
one murder and the suspect in the other as among their own.
"I tell them to be careful out there," said Scanlon, 38, a
Lynn man who blames alcohol for keeping him down and out for many
years on the streets in Worcester and Boston.
Richard F. Radford Jr., director of the Middlesex Street
Shelter, said most homeless people here arm themselves for
self-protection.
Radford ...