Family and friends spent a year trying to get Jessica Witzel Hofmann the treatment she needed for schizophrenia, but the help was slow, late and nonexistent.
Jessica Witzel Hofmann was homeless and suffering from schizophrenia when she died of heatstroke in the Five Points area, north of downtown, her friends and family say. Bystanders found the 46-year-old mother unresponsive about 4 p.m. Thursday on a sidewalk in the 120 block of East Fredericksburg Road , according to a San Antonio police report. There were no signs of physical trauma. The temperature that day reached a record-setting 106 degrees, according to the National Weather Service .
Cortez, co-editor of deceleration, a nonprofit news website, wrote about her childhood friend in an essay, “The Woman Who Died in the Texas Heat on a San Antonio Sidewalk Was My Friend.” She cited climate change, a lack of resources, and slow response times on the part of city and county departments. Cortez said they met when they were kids at Bulverde Elementary. As adults, they lived in a fourplex across from San Antonio College.
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