Homeless Veteran Going Home to Family After Someone Cared About Him

Good Samaritan helps homeless veteran find family
Wiley Wright expected to head home after 30 years
KSAT News
By Pilar Arias - Reporter
Posted: 5:27 PM, December 28, 2015

A homeless man living under a bridge on the city’s northwest side is about to see his family for the first time in more than 30 years.

“I’ve been homeless ever since my grandfather died in (19)75,” Wiley James Wright Jr. said.

Wright has gone without talking to his family for nearly half his life. Thanks to a good Samaritan who only wants to be known as Amanda, that’s about to change.

“We’re our brother’s keeper. Like, this is what we’re supposed to do,” Amanda said. “I just thought if he would let me help him, I should try.”

Amanda gave Wiley money the first time she noticed him panhandling at a gas station off Culebra Road and Westwood Loop but she couldn’t get him off her mind.

When she returned to meet him, she learned he was living under a bridge at a nearby park. After learning the 61-year-old Army veteran’s story, she decided to help him reconnect with loved ones.

Wright’s now waiting for his younger sister to pick him up. She’s driving to San Antonio from Moultrie, Georgia.
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