A single police officer stood near the former Tent City homeless camp off Akron Drive Thursday afternoon to keep anyone from going back onto the property.
A cleanup crew had finished the job of removing piles of bagged garbage and even the remaining tents that were abandoned on the city-owned property when Winston-Salem officials ordered the residents to leave on Wednesday.
Still, there was plenty of evidence that people had been staying there. Cigarette lighters, ink pens, tent cords and even hypodermic needles lay in the dirt among other assorted small items.
City officials say the death of a man at the camp on Tuesday forced their hands. No further information was available on the death, which local activists said involved an out-of-town man who had just come to the camp and who was found dead in a tent on Tuesday.
Winston-Salem officials plan a 10 a.m. news conference on Tuesday to update citizens about the Tent City on Akron Drive, along with other efforts to aid the homeless in the