Homeless veteran in Hawaii killed by bus

This is the strangest news report because it basically attacks a homeless veteran. Why on earth would the reporter decide to write about this veteran's adult kids not wanting anything to do with him? How else do veterans end up homeless? Families, for whatever reason, fall apart and they end up on the streets.

Homeless man killed by city bus had wheelchair stolen weeks ago
Hawaii News Now
By Keoki Kerr
Posted: Jul 03, 2014

WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) - The man who died after being run over by a city bus Saturday in Waikiki was a homeless veteran suffering from terminal cancer whose wheelchair was recently stolen, people who knew him told Hawaii News Now Thursday.

A pair of red shoes and a blue baseball cap worn by Kenneth Martyn, 71, remained at the scene in Waikiki Saturday after he was run over by a city bus along Ala Moana Boulevard and later died.

Homeless people and others who knew him said for most of the last three years he lived at a city bus stop in front of Discovery Bay condominiums, just up the road from where he died.

"He basically lived on the sidewalk, on a towel for many years,” said a man who works in the visitor industry in Waikiki and spoke to him nearly every day. “Yeah, he never bothered nobody, good old Kenny. It's sad what happened to him."

The man told Hawaii News Now says Martyn was despondent because he was suffering from terminal cancer, and someone had stolen his electric wheelchair several weeks ago.
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