September 3: Two teenagers were arrested for the beating death of a homeless man. Christopher Michael Maciolek, 19, and Finley Byrdette Fultz, 18, were booked on suspicion of open murder in the beating and stomping to death of James Beasley, 55.

Witnesses say the two attackers beat a homeless man at Wingfield Park, and then walked to nearby Brick Park where Beasely was sleeping on a bench. They kicked and stomped on Beasely’s head and torso.

Both teens are suspected in the beating up two other homeless people on Labor Day.

One victim didn’t file a police report in order to not to be known as a “snitch” to the police. This victim was beaten up by a group of men as he was sleeping. The man suffered leg fractures.

Another man reported he was awakened along the banks of the Truckee River by a group of younger men who were beating his legs with either a bat or a stick.

Mark Mallory, assistant manager for the Men’s Drop-In Center, said that seven of his clients, including the murder victim, Beasley, were assaulted by people believed to be housed.