At the end of August, Joe Henry, a 58-year-old homeless handyman, committed suicide after sharing his story with Westword about losing his job at the Brown Palace for sleeping in out-of-order rooms while he was homeless. Henry’s suicide on August 22 was confirmed by the Lakewood Police Department, who said that “messages in his phone indicate he took being fired from his job very hard and was in a bad mental space.”…

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