Basilio owns a tapa restaurant less than a block from the World Trade Center downtown, which has been proposed as a new homeless shelter. He thinks it could be bad for his business and the city’s financial district and hopes alternatives or other solutions are sought.

Jeromiah Paul Davis was a health nut and athlete who served his country at Guantanamo Bay. He was also had a difficult past and a meth habit.

Likely suicidal, last March Davis ran a mile up Avocado Blvd with a knife in his hand. After trying non-lethal methods to stop him, when he reached the top of the hill at the intersections of Fuerte and Avocado, police shot him 17 times.

A little over a year later, the five officers involved in Jeromiah’s death were awarded Medals of Valor by the El Cajon Police Department. In this video, Jeromiah’s mother Cleda Rodriguez reacts to the medals and tells a bit more of her son’s story of struggle.

To read Jeromiah Paul Davis obituary, click here and visit voiceofsandiego.org

“Everybody who left has gone frustrated, in debt and disappointed.”

Charles and Bessie Johnson opened Magnolia’s Authentic Southern Dining five years ago at Market Creek Plaza, part of a group of local business owners asked to open shop in the new shopping center. Last month they closed their doors for the last time. Here Charles shares his point of view of what went wrong.

Click here to see the Johnson’s story on voiceofsandiego.org

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