For Star subscribers: You can have heavenly experiences living in Tucson, enjoying the traditions of the place as autumn leads into winter. But the horrors of social deterioration refuse to be ignored.
The Sunday morning of Tucson Meet Yourself, in October, was a divine stroll downtown from booth to booth, contemplating food choices, looking at art and sun hats, with cumbias wafting through the air.
But then something happens like what occurred near East Fairmount Street and North Alvernon Way on Saturday, Nov. 12 and makes me feel terrible about the place. That morning, two teens were arrested in the beating death of a 37-year-old man to death.He was also developmentally disabled. I don't have to list for you all the other violent outrages that have happened in just the past few months. A Pima County constable and two others killed while she was carrying out an eviction. A University of Arizona professor shot to death in the building where he taught and headed the hydrology department.
Daily, who lives in Flowing Wells, told me he was motivated by the experience of living near a wash, where homeless people started living in an adjacent culvert.
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