If this is the wrong area, feel free to move it, but how sad and scary. I didn't see it anywhere else...
John Hasting, if that really is his name, can't remember anything about his life before early August.
He's pretty sure his name is John Hasting, and he thinks he's 20 years old.
He's been staying at Crisis Ministries' shelter on Meeting Street in Charleston since Aug. 15.
Jeff Yungman, the shelter's clinical director, said Charlie Ball, the director of Friendship Place in Georgetown, brought Hasting to the shelter hoping he'd have access to more services.
Friendship Place, at the St. Cyprian Outreach Center, is a Georgetown program that helps the area's homeless residents. Hasting stayed at Friendship Place from Aug. 8 until he was brought to Charleston, Yungman said.
Hasting is white and about 5 feet 11 inches tall. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He has a hearing problem and a speech impediment.
He also has a scar, possibly from surgery, on the underside of his upper left arm.
Hasting said he vaguely remembers feeling ill one day in early August. He sat down on a Georgetown sidewalk and thinks he fell asleep. When he woke up, he said, it was dark. He got up and started walking around town.
"It was kind of like I had no emotions," Hasting said.
He had no wallet, no identification and just $3 in his pocket.
Eventually, he said, he walked into the Georgetown Ice House gas station and convenience store.
He came in the store early on a Sunday morning, Aug. 6, Ginger Haley said. She works at the Ice House and Georgetown One Hour Photo. He didnt say anything. He just was in here.
Hasting was wearing shorts and a pair of worn tennis or athletic shoes. He was not wearing a shirt.
Haley spoke with him, offering to help. When he asked if she had any jobs, she said no.
More at link:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17167758&BRD=2081&PAG=461&dept_id=385210&rfi=6
John Hasting, if that really is his name, can't remember anything about his life before early August.
He's pretty sure his name is John Hasting, and he thinks he's 20 years old.
He's been staying at Crisis Ministries' shelter on Meeting Street in Charleston since Aug. 15.
Jeff Yungman, the shelter's clinical director, said Charlie Ball, the director of Friendship Place in Georgetown, brought Hasting to the shelter hoping he'd have access to more services.
Friendship Place, at the St. Cyprian Outreach Center, is a Georgetown program that helps the area's homeless residents. Hasting stayed at Friendship Place from Aug. 8 until he was brought to Charleston, Yungman said.
Hasting is white and about 5 feet 11 inches tall. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He has a hearing problem and a speech impediment.
He also has a scar, possibly from surgery, on the underside of his upper left arm.
Hasting said he vaguely remembers feeling ill one day in early August. He sat down on a Georgetown sidewalk and thinks he fell asleep. When he woke up, he said, it was dark. He got up and started walking around town.
"It was kind of like I had no emotions," Hasting said.
He had no wallet, no identification and just $3 in his pocket.
Eventually, he said, he walked into the Georgetown Ice House gas station and convenience store.
He came in the store early on a Sunday morning, Aug. 6, Ginger Haley said. She works at the Ice House and Georgetown One Hour Photo. He didnt say anything. He just was in here.
Hasting was wearing shorts and a pair of worn tennis or athletic shoes. He was not wearing a shirt.
Haley spoke with him, offering to help. When he asked if she had any jobs, she said no.
More at link:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17167758&BRD=2081&PAG=461&dept_id=385210&rfi=6
