Another twenty-six people living with fixed abode died in OC in October 2025. Their names are: Ryan RETTIG who died on October 2nd in Costa Mesa Todd BUSHMAN who died on October 4th in Los Alamitos Ignacio RAMIREZ who died on October 6th in Santa Ana Nicholas HOWELL who died on October 9th in Huntington Beach Stephen HECKERT who died on October 10th in Santa Ana Rudolph JUAREZ, II who died on October 10th in Buena Park Ivan MILLAN FRAUSTO who died on October 10th in Santa Ana Scott HULETT who died on October 12th in Newport Beach Randy MARASCO who died on October 13th in Orange Brandon SOLOMON who died on October 13th in Fountain Valley John DOE who died on October 14th in Fountain Valley Vijitha SAMARASINGHE who died on October 14th in Orange Loretta ROWAN who died on October 15th in Westminster James TOMLINSON who died on October 16th in Anaheim Hoang HA who died on October 16th in Santa Ana Roberto ZAMARO, II who died on October 19th in Orange Desiree SOTOA who died on October 21st in Anaheim Luis ARMENTA who died on October 21st in Anaheim Brenda MCPEAK who died on October 22nd in Garden Grove Flavio CARDOSO FILHO who died on October 26th in Costa Mesa Joe MURRAY who died on October 27th in Anaheim Joshua OLDHAM who died on October 28th in Laguna Beach Vincent LENBIRD who died on October 29th in Anaheim Cristina DOMINGUEZ who died on October 29th in Santa Ana Roberto DIMARCO who died on October 30th in Laguna Hills Tatiana BROGAN who died on October 31st in Anaheim As of October 31st, 269 people without fixed abode have died in the County since the beginning of the year. While this continues a decrease in the number of deaths in recent years, the death toll remains significantly higher than in the pre-COVID era. In 2019, the last full year before the onset of COVID-19, the death toll was 166 for the year at the end of October. Still the report of the County’s Commission on Homeless Deaths due to come out sometime in the winter of 2026 promises to be quite significant because, though it will only give answers regarding the homeless death toll in 2024, it will begin to give indication as to what the County has been able to do right in reducing the homeless death toll in recent years from the record levels of 2022 and 2023, when the death tolls as of the end of October were 398 and 433 respectively (in 2024, the homeless death toll at the end of October was 319 for the year). However, the County still has a long way to go to return to pre-COVID era levels. And even then, in 2019, one person living without fixed abode was dying in the County every other day. And no one should be dying homeless on our County’s streets, period. Fr. Dennis Kriz, OSM, Pastor St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church, Fullerton. Opinions expressed in community opinion pieces belong to the authors and not Voice of OC. Voice of OC is interested in hearing different perspectives and voices. If you want to weigh in on this issue or others please email opinions@voiceofoc. org.
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