LOS ANGELES — About a week before her son died, Heidi Locatell begged him not to go back to living on the streets.
Luke, 30, had been homeless on and off since around 2015 and struggled with addiction to meth. He had been residing in a sober living facility for nearly eight months but returned to being unhoused on Aug. 31 and relapsed.
"He liked the freedom of nobody telling him what to do," Locatell said.
