Woman Kills Self to Avoid Eviction, Tweets Just Before Death
Eric Barton, Broward Palm Beach New Times: Here’s a story that brings home just how morbid this housing crisis can be: Heather Newnam of Tamarac shot herself yesterday instead of letting cops evict her for failing to pay her rent.
It’s a depressing tale, but perhaps what’s more depressing is reading what amounts to Newnam’s final public words on her Twitter account. Writing under the name rsangel04, bits of Newnam’s life played out in her posts. Then she seemed to foretell her own death in this final post at 7:04 p.m. on June 24. She sent this from her cell phone:
Rich get richer, poor get poorer, families on the street, govt doesn’t care. God bless the usa, but can He save it?
What’s even sadder is that previous posts seem to show Newnam in a better place, talking about going to the tattoo convention and watching the TV show Rescue Me. The day before that last message, she wrote:
five minutes til Rescue Me, Woo Hoo! then bed, Im beat
A few days before that, she tweets about having a tooth pulled and using tequila to kill the pain. She writes about hating Florida, wonders what tattoo she should get next, and talks about watching her husband play a videogame.
