Homeless encampments near Union Pacific tracks in San Jose. (Photo by Supriya Yelimeli for Bay City News)

Marie was about 50 years old and a homeless mother when she died in September. 

She was living near the Tully Community Branch Library and Coyote Creek, a location common to the unhoused in San Jose, said the Rev. Scott Wagers of CHAM Deliverance Ministry, a front-line ministry providing homeless people with food and other needs.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.