Reply #4: Damn. :(

[ThomCat]

So it looks like they took in someone who needed a place to stay, trying to help, and ended up paying the ultimate cost when that person was violently unstable?

:cry:

I've been homeless, and I'm very thankful to the people who took me in. Ever since then I've always had an open door policy and I've often taken people in, sometimes for short periods, and sometimes for long periods. My only condition was that they were people I already knew, or people vouched for by someone I knew well. But I've always been away that taking someone in can be risky.

You never know what problems someone brings with them. If someone brings a lot of stressful problems with them then they bring their stressful reactions to the problems with them. If they have any addictions, then those come with them too. If they have psychological issues you may not find out about them until they've moved in.

If this really was a situation of someone they tried to help turning on them then it's all the more tragic. :(