Joseph Meyers
Sometimes, you are trying to do the right thing by volunteering to your local homeless shelter and then you die in such a crazy manner like this man.
A man, who volunteered at a homeless shelter, has died after he was beaten over a dispute about 75 cents, according to police reports in Ohio.
Hospital officials said that four days after a brutal assault stemming from a dispute over 75 cents, a resident and volunteer worker at a rescue mission in downtown Toledo died on Wednesday.
Joseph Meyers, 53, was pronounced dead at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center at 5:58 pm, Toledo police said Thursday.
Sergeant Joe Heffernan said police plan to file a murder charge against his alleged assailant, Houston Hart, 49, when the case goes before a grand jury in Lucas County.
Hart faces a charge of criminal assault, for which he was arrested and detained in the Lucas County jail in lieu of $1 million bond.
Police said Meyers, 53, was beaten and trampled on Saturday in the Toledo Gospel Rescue Mission, located at 1917 Jefferson Avenue, After refusing to give Hart 75 cents.
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