Harassment on the streets: Homeless individuals share experiences
Community members hold signs honoring the life of Scott Bryan during a vigil and walk to The Warming Center in Kalispell on Saturday, July 1. Kaleb Elijah Fleck, 19, is accused of beating Bryan, a homeless man, to death outside a Kalispell gas station on the morning of June 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Ken Selke, who is homeless, standing outside of the Flathead Warming Center on Oct. 21, 2024.
Kevin Pearson, who is homeless, standing outside of the Flathead Warming Center on Oct. 21, 2024.
Kevin Pearson had only been on the streets for a short while before he was brutally beaten.
Pearson, who was in his mid-20s at the time, was walking along U.S. 2 in front of Smith’s Food and Drug in Kalispell in 2003 when he says five people jumped out of a truck and assaulted him.
“They threw me to the ground and kicked me in the head over and over and left me for dead,” he said.
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