‘He was just trying to find a way’: Friends fondly remember homeless man killed in Harrisburg shooting
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 15, 2021
A man was fatally shot Mon., Jan. 11, 2021, outside Antonio s Grocery at Sixth and Woodbine streets in Harrisburg, police said.
Facebook Share
Billy Grier, 50, was homeless and struggling with an untreated mental illness.
He ran into an old friend on Christmas and said he finally got set up with a social worker who was going to help him get treatment for his condition.
But Grier died before he could get the help he had been waiting for.
Someone fatally shot Grier Monday as he stood among several other people outside a corner store at North Sixth and Woodbine streets, where he was known to visit each day. Prosecutors don’t believe he was the intended target.