Toms River: Earlier today we reported that a large presence of Toms River Police were in the Toms River Shopping Center near Kohl’s. There was a body found in the woods behind the old Chase Bank in the rear of the plaza. At this time the body has been recovered, and there is nothing suspicious in this death. The male was 47 years old, and his name has not yet been released pending family notification. It appears he was homeless and living in the woods.
Tom Wolfe
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Fitz John
Brianna Corradino no
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So sad. RIP
We did not know him and we feel bad he did not know about Code Blue ???? project. All centers were open in Ocean County. So we where prepared and ready. All information is out through email and social media. R.I.P
Paul J Hulse I love that there is a code blue for them. However if they are homeless they may not have social media or email. Is there other way yo spread the word?
Pamela Pammie we do as much as we can to get the word out through all local churches social media outlets and word-of-mouth and other nonprofit organizations in the community we hand out multiple business cards and do all types of outreach to make sure that there is true awareness through the township and also the police help as well and the Ocean County sheriff’s department so we all do what we can
Paul J Hulse that’s amazing thank you for all that you do
If they have no transportation, how are they to get there?
Brenda Ann Parkerson we provide or the police or sheriff’s department if officers are available they will. It is really a great program.
Brenda Ann Parkerson we do our best..
Paul J Hulse I have roughly 10 sleeping bags, a bunch if female Hooded jackets & fleece blankets, all brand new, still I’m packaging. Amazon selected my organizations charity wish list & sent me a lot of product. I would be more than happy to donate them
Michael Howlett sure that would be great we are in need of stuff for our Lakewood center ran by Blaind.
Paul J Hulse I’m always on FB …sorry I never heard of Code Blue Project…are there homeless centers in Tom’s River? Where can I get more info? Guess I could search FB if you have a page. I would love to share info
Liz McPhail sure.
http://www.justbelieveinc.org
Paul J Hulse thank you ????
Never heard of this …good to know
Wow
Very sad news. Rest in peace
Just awful !!! So sad
When is the Ocean County Freeholders going to do something about the homeless. If I had the money I would build housing for them
Teresa Jasinski there are so many vacant homes that are bank owned, maybe they should give up a few to help these people. Lakewood has so many new 3 car garage homes, the6 can place a few homeless in there to.
Diane Carbin Arnone people dont want them in their neighborhood.
Teresa Jasinski ???? especially Veterans & disabled, our country must do better.
How about rehab the old food town or move it back to the bank and build there and rehab bank. For these poor people
Clem Clemson true Monmouth Cty has shelter s on is at the old Ft Monmouth
I run a cryptocurrency aimed at helping the homeless, it’s called Help The Homeless Coin. Along with this project, I have started a Nonprofit Corporation titled Help The Homeless Worldwide A NJ Nonprofit Corporation. I am small & just starting out, but would love to get involved in any way that I can. I have a community around the world that would help in any way they can including donations
Teresa Jasinski
Very sad. ????????
Omg passed there earlier before police presence. How sad these people are living in the woods. As I drove onto 166 & rt 37 a man with a beard was sitting on top of a shopping cart watching cars go by. Reminded me of the bearded guy who waves to everyone a bit further down.
Janie Vassallo SanGiacomo people swear that guy isn’t homeless.
Amie Thomas heard that too
Janie Vassallo SanGiacomo that man sits on the corner at the end of my street. He can also be found taking a snooze at the library and walking long lengths of rt 37
Amie Thomas I’ve heard the same… He sure smells likes it though… If he isn’t homeless he could at least go shower
Theresa Marie wtf???? Really.
Sharon Lynn Huber right!!!!
Amie Thomas I was told the 7-11 man is mentally ill but his family provides for him, otherwise he probably would be homeless. Sadly many people don’t have that support, they become homeless or wind up in jail- very sad.
Janie Vassallo SanGiacomo OMG i was nowhere near there earlier. But if I was, well I dunno, but wow!
Mother Theresa Marie has spoken… may her karma be twofold.
They should give him a ticket for littering back there. The place is a pig pen.
Mike Merola are you serious right now,? If it is so bad why not gather up some people and volunteer to help clean up the area. Or offer them garbage bags and cans. I dont mean to sound sassy but they are homeless and maybe have little to no money
Mike Merola seriously?! Give a ticket to a dead man?
Pamela Pammie so now they’re above the law ??
Lynn Rankin-Guenther Hell yes
Just because you’re poor doesn’t mean you have to be a pig
Mike Merola I truly hope you and your loved ones stay healthy and rich because I would feel sorry for them if they needed help from you
Pamela Pammie your a joke
Mike Merola they are just trying to stay alive out there???? They don’t have a nice house???? Ticket???? They can’t afford to live. That ticket could be toilet paper to some!
Pamela Pammie have you been back there ?? I have . It’s a Junk Yard
Well Mike Merola if your so concerned go clean it up !!????????????
Pamela Pammie Doesn’t take money to clean up after yourself and respect the envirement in which you live. Just because you are down on your luck or worse homeless does not make it ok to destroy the environment. And further more what makes you think someone else should go pick up after them?
Mike Merola I hope you and your family are never in their situation and people are like you are being. It’s a shame you open your mouth instead of help people in need
El Karim I said the same thing he appears to be to good to help
Michael Zbikowski offer to help out by buying them supplies they cant afford. Why be so rude about the homeless
El Karim he’d rather bitch about it on social media then lift a finger.
There’s no more common decency out here anymore everybody thinks they’re better than everybody
He was homeless and living in the woods! Nothing suspicious about his death…maybe we need to help out our homeless just a bit more to avoid more unsuspicious deaths,
Diane Carbin Arnone exactly!
Diane Carbin Arnone yes empty buildings should be made for them let them work cleaning side if roads odd jobs to pay for the room. Some are vets. If other country’s or states can do it why can’t we.
Diane Carbin Arnone ????
Diane Carbin Arnone mmm…sounds good ..but
THE DEMONRATS
FEEL IT JUSTIFIED TO HELP THE ILLEGALS (VOTERS)
…IM JUST SAYING FOR A FRIEND
Someone’s son, brother, uncle, cousin or father ????????
Chris Tean Kinsaul somebodies baby ????
I carry water bottles, food and some dog food in my car in case I see anyone in need
Pamela Pammie you feed homeless people dog food? That’s pretty foul
Wow are you seriously asking me that? No I give dog food to those with a dog who needs to eat. Grow up
Pamela Pammie great idea
Eileen Knight thank you the dogs need food too ❤️
Pamela Pammie that’s great.
Diane Carbin Arnone thank you
Pamela Pammie I used to eat milk bones as a child to. The alpo was my favorite.
David Meyer is that suppose to be funny?
David Meyer OMG your profile pic ????
Rob McClusker pretty sure she carries the dog food for the homeless people who aquire stray dogs as there own..i really hope you were trying to be sarcastic and not serious
This saddens my heart, GOD HELP OUR HOMELESS.
There is a mother out there scared to death of getting this very call ???????????? sending prayers ????????????????????????????????????????
Littany Demarest yes worst fear
Barbara Minue I have been on the scary end of the long wait for that god awful call…. At the moment I can breathe a little easier but there’s no guarantee that it will stay that way ???? my prayers to you or anyone living in that abyss ????????????????????????
TerrynErnie Leone
I was homeless during the winter there
Let your voice be heard
Paul J Hulse omg I will be arrested…working for hud it is sad what is allowed and others dont know.Such as having a million bucks in the bank but HUD allows this
Ugh…. So sad…..
Not everyone makes a choice to be homeless…I made bad choices and by the grace of God I reckon reed it’s been 15 years and now working where I do?..I see the choices people make and abuse the system!..MIND YOU!..not evrykne …it just seems the k es who abuse the system are the ones getting the greatest help!..this in turn causes the ones who are trying their hardest?..to be put last and where does that lead?..right to this mess!…I just went through a very bad day with a homeless woman who lost her baby today!…she blamed me …how?..I’m a manager not your mother sister or friend yet I handed her food …clothes and gave her the same price on a room as social service would pay!…she abused it by having men in her room …..mind you she was brought in three days ago because she was beaten up at 1 am!…the very next day she was getting high !…this is becoming so sad but where do we as caring people draw the LINE???…the police found all kinds of drug paraphernalia in her room !..but I’m to blame?…HELL NO!…enough of feeling sorry !…court order rehabilitation!…a baby died today because of her choices …not mine
So sad????????
Sad rest in peace
No freaking homeless shelters in Ocean County…sad but section 8 vouchers are handed over to Hasidic Jews in Lakewood like it is candy…☹
Denise Falone Ferriolo Yes so true…. Very sad!!!
Denise Falone Ferriolo
Denise Falone Ferriolo thats Bullshit ! They know how to beat the system!
Robert Casaletto they don’t register with state when married, dont have to register for the military as all other Americans, even my autistic son, they claim they are studying religion 24/7, Rabbi’s buy the homes in their names then turn around and rent 3 floor per home to collect section 8, checks go directly to the rabbi’s. Properties are tax free, house of worship car are also put in the rabbi’s name.., you ask why? Can have more than $2000. in assets to collect the social services from birth to 18 yrs old for each kid…we all know that are 6 plus…They run the other non Hasidic people out of their homes by buying these homes in cash so now people are broken, hurt, homeless…sickening
Denise Falone Ferriolo ????
It’s a shame they dont care about us Americans but they will give illegal immigrants stores and licenses America is going to shit
Bobby Lightbody amen…
Bobby Lightbody ????????????????????????
SMFH- the shit I’ve read on this thread is purely disgusting…. Makes me sick that people can be this way towards other people…
Unf*****g real
I hope it’s not the guy who sits on the corner of 7-11 by a Washington street
Patricia Nosiay Clarino No, he was sitting in his usual spot this afternoon.
Patricia Nosiay Clarino Love that guy. I always wave to him when I’m on my motorcycle.
I know he is so nice. I wave also. Prayers for all homeless and the poor man that died.????????
He I’d the coolest guy I ever met
“Nothing suspicious about his death????? He just lived in the woods bc he was homeless!!!!!” That’s what’s wrong with this country
This should not be happening in America…
Ok so let take care of the homeless and not the illegals
Allen Piccininno ~ this. Exactly this.
Allen Piccininno ????
Reggie
This is absolutely horrible. A true shame.
5his time of year is the worst. So damn sad.
So sad. Its been so cold.
So sad ????
There’s a guy that waves to you on the corner of Washington Street and Whittier.
Wave back.
Kevin Karlick we always wave to him.
RIP ????
So very sad
There is nothing more sad to me than seeing a homeless person. I could never imagine and I feel sorry for them all, regardless of their situation. You can all judge but until we’ve walked in their shoes we can’t say anything. Some of them dont even have shoes, so imagine that? ????
Pattie Guglielmi-Agosto let your voices be heard
Paul J Hulse Thank You!
What a shame. Nobody should have to live in the woods. Why isn’t there more resources?
Loretto Brown because it goes to everyone coming here
Loretto Brown Because it goes to the illegal aliens
I have a neighbor who lives in an apartment run by the state. Over the holiday his electric was shut off. He pays the gas bill ,the state is supposed to pay the electric. They didn’t !! He didn’t know what to do. It was freezing in the house. I help him call the social worker , after a week they placed him in a different unit. He ask me to check his smoke alarms because they were going off for hours, I was shocked ! The furniture is a couch , if you sit in it goes to the floor, his bed is broken, he doesn’t even have a kitchen chair to sit at the table to eat. He lost all his food and the fridge was full of mold. I complained they did nothing.
I, I’m reporting them to the board of health. It’s I just Disgrace how the mentally ill or treated.. I don’t know how you expect someone to get well living in conditions like that. They didn’t even offer to take him to the food bank to get some food. It’s the end of the month and most of these people have no food by the end of the month. I’m sorry but the workers are cold and callous. The family doesn’t want to be involved. And I guess since I don’t know the Circumstances I can’t really say much about that. It’s very sad!
That’s why we need mental institutions
Sent you a message Eileen Knight.
Eileen Knight it’s so sad how we treat our own people in this country
Deborah Thorne Stewart well maybe if we stopped helping people from other countries we’d be able to help our citizens more. But I know that’s to simple for NJ thanks to a state filled with idiot
Eileen Knight idiots
Jack Shafto Jr no we don’t !! We need people to care !
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People are dropping dead behind lots of shopping centers lately. Nothing suspicious at all. ????
We have a huge homeless population here that is kept hidden! We have no shelters here either the nearest one is in ac and is always full
Terry McCoy Gardner no one wants the shelters in their neighborhoods
Very sad the title reads transient male. How about just Homeless. Sorry for his family’s loss. Prayers and Condolences to them. No one chooses to be homeless. There are so many reasons why this could happen.
Some people actually do choose to be homeless.
Alisha Kusenko transient male. Means he kept moving. That’s all. I think they’re trying to say he didn’t stay in that area.
Alisha Kusenko i wish his family would have helped him
Patricia Lorraine Zennario maybe they tried….maybe he refused help…we’ll never know….its just sad…prayers ascending
Theresa Loggia Kovacs um no it means homeless…
Alisha Kusenko I was thinking the same thing. It’s sad. That has nothing to do with his death.
Yea let’s put them on a bus and send them over to New York, like mayor deblasios human trafficking scheme he should be charged with
So sad
Isn’t this the 3rd time?
Did they release the name of the person?
It’s so sad we do more for illegals than we do our own
But yet we can give million to Illegals, and Planned parenthood but these folks, nothing.
Stephanie Alyssa Buehl
Presley Miguel wtf
May his soul rest in eternal peace what a dam shame
Its all Trumps fault ????????????
I live in downtown toms river i wonder if its that guy that’s always at 7-11 talking to himself and shaking hes clearly mentally ill i dont understand how he doesnt have help or housing. Or if it’s the tall guy with the beard always walking around i feel bad for them ive been homeless a few times never longer then a few weeks but those few weeks were hell. Its really sad what a rough and brutal existence so many people live.
crazy ken?