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Mitch Snyder Found Hanged in CCNV Shelter;Note Laments a Failed Love Relationship
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
July 6, 1990| Author:
Chris Spolar; Marcia Slacum Greene
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Mitch Snyder, one of the nation's best-known champions of
homeless people, was found dead yesterday in his bedroom at the
Community for Creative Non-Violence shelter. Police said he had
hanged himself.
Staff worker Marsh Ward and another CCNV member discovered
Snyder's body about 2:30 p.m. on the third floor of the 1,200-person
shelter at Second and D streets NW, staff members and police said.
Snyder had last been seen Tuesday, police said.
A suicide note, handwritten on yello...
