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December 22, 1994 | From Associated Press
Marcelino Corniel, the knife-wielding homeless man shot by police in front of the White House, died Wednesday night after undergoing two lengthy operations and remaining in critical condition for 36 hours. Corniel, 33, died from cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit at George Washington University Hospital, less than four blocks from the shooting scene, about 9 p.m. EST, said Rich James, a hospital spokesman. Corniel was shot once in the abdomen and once in his right leg by a uniformed U.S.
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January 11, 1993 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Health workers will sweep through Washington's homeless shelters tonight to test residents for tuberculosis in a novel, high-stakes strategy to control the resurgent disease in one of its main breeding grounds. Officials hope eventually to reach up to 5,000 homeless men and women. The campaign marks the first time any large U.S. city will try systematically to examine people in homeless shelters to find and treat TB, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
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December 21, 1994 | PAUL RICHTER and AARON NATHANS, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
A homeless man brandishing a nine-inch knife was shot by a U.S. Park Police officer in front of the White House Tuesday, marking the third shooting outside the presidential residence in two months. Marcelino Corniel, 33, a Southern California native who had been camped in adjacent Lafayette Park, was shot in the chest and leg after charging across Pennsylvania Avenue about 9 a.m. and menacing a cordon of U.S. Park Police officers, authorities said.
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December 21, 1994 | PAUL RICHTER and AARON NATHANS, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
A former Anaheim man brandishing a nine-inch knife was shot by a U.S. Park Police officer in front of the White House on Tuesday, marking the third shooting outside the presidential residence in two months. Marcelino Corniel, 33, a homeless man who had been camped in adjacent Lafayette Park, was shot in the chest and leg after charging across Pennsylvania Avenue about 9 a.m. and menacing a cordon of U.S. Park Police officers, authorities said.
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February 1, 1989 | BETTY CUNIBERTI, Times Staff Writer
In her initial outing as First Lady, Barbara Bush visited a tattered section of Washington Tuesday to make salami and cheese sandwiches and to read a story for 35 children at a charity facility that helps the homeless. Wearing a red apron and up to her elbows in wheat bread, Mrs. Bush said that she chose the facility, called Martha's Table, for her first excursion "because I'm hoping Americans will look at the range of volunteerism and see how important it is, what an important job they do."
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June 13, 1990 | United Press International
The District of Columbia City Council on Tuesday approved a bill that effectively guts the city's landmark 1984 voter-mandated right-to-shelter law, claiming that the measure had been too costly. The council voted to amend Initiative 17, which orders the city to provide emergency shelter to anyone requesting it, regardless of its budget constraints. The city spent $10 million on its homeless program in 1985, compared to nearly $40 million in federal and local funds for homeless programs in 1989.