Man's Body Found In Rv As Crews Clear San Jose Encampment

As San Jose crews began clearing a bum encampment Monday greeting astatine Columbus Park, they found a man’s assemblage wrong an RV, constabulary confirmed.

The origin of decease is unknown, but nan man’s friends deliberation he was stressed and distraught complete nan expanse and nan imaginable of not having a spot to spell to.

Two women who knew nan man went wrong his RV Monday greeting and recovered nan man dormant connected his bed. Authorities opportunity location are nary evident signs of trauma.

No charismatic recognition was released, but friends told NBC Bay Area that his sanction was Octavio and that he was astir 45 years old. They besides said he drove a motortruck for a surviving and had precocious spent $7,000 connected his RV.

“He was good, but he was sick, but cipher seems to care, you know,” said Sergio Valencia, a friend. “Once they told him he was moving, he started doing really, really bad. He started stressing.”

City workers Monday greeting began cleaning up nan trash littering nan ample bum encampment astatine Columbus Park.

The metropolis had posted a announcement that astatine 7 a.m. Monday, anyone still staying astatine nan parkland would beryllium asked to time off because nan parkland is unsafe and nan parkland unusable. But arsenic of 11 a.m., location was nary motion of group moving retired aliases being forced out.

Mayor Matt Mahan’s agency released a media advisory.

“Over nan coming weeks, residents presently surviving astatine nan parkland will person nan opportunity to modulation into hundreds of recently disposable shelter beds. Those who garbage to travel indoors will beryllium cleared from nan tract arsenic it becomes a nary encampment area successful mentation for restoration.”

A man named Frank, who’s been surviving pinch his canine successful a camper astatine Columbus Park for nan past year, says he feels safe location because he tin fastener his camper astatine nighttime and spell to sleep.

His alternative, he said, would beryllium a tent, streets, sleeping extracurricular a 7-Eleven aliases thing else. Frank said he would judge a shelter furniture if it was offered.

City workers besides were astatine nan parkland doing outreach to spot really they tin thief nan encampment residents. The metropolis has group speech motel rooms for transitional housing. But nan mayor’s agency says only 42 motel rooms were disposable Monday.

There are much than 300 group surviving astatine nan park.

The metropolis says it plans to unfastened astir 400 lodging units complete nan adjacent 4 weeks.