MIAMI, Fla.
Last Saturday was the first time I’d seen Ronnie Valentine since Wes Lockard and I found him nearly a year and a half ago.
Ronnie was homeless for nearly three decades, and for about 15 years, no one from Old Dominion University had seen nor heard from the school’s career leading basketball scorer. Many wondered whether he was dead.
With the help of the Camillus House Catholic charity, we found Ronnie living in Miami’s notorious Liberty City neighborhood in a one-bedroom apartment. He'd been off the streets for months, but was clearly not out of trouble.