Humboldt County Mental Health Sending Therapists to SoHum Wednesday After Shooting Death of Popular Homeless Man
Jason Todd Garrett
The shooting death of Jason Garrett and subsequent manhunt for the suspect, Ryan Tanner, left many in Southern Humboldt in shock. Monday, therapists were made available for those struggling with the situation.
Additional help will be made available on Wednesday morning. According to information provided by Patte Rae from the Housing Trust Fund and Homelessness Solutions Committee:
After the murder of a popular local homeless man, many people are expressing fear and concern for their own safety as well as trauma and grief over the loss of their friend, Jason Garrett.
This Monday the [24th], County Mental Health sent therapists to talk to some women feeling emotionally overwhelmed from the ordeal.
The therapists will also hold a group debriefing for anyone else feeling impacted by this murder and by street violence on Wednesday morning from 9 to 11 a.m. The group will be held at the Social Services building in Garberville, across from the library.
If you or anyone you know us having a psychiatric crisis, the crisis line is available 24/7 at 707.445.7715
Map to the Garberville social services building:
Related: Jason Todd Garrett: ‘A fun-loving, gentle soul’
Earlier:
- Ambulances, Helicopter, K-9, and Large Numbers of Officers Gather for SWAT Operation in SoHum This Morning
- One Arrest in Today’s SWAT Team Search of the China Creek Area
- Childhood Buddy With China Creek Suspect When He Was Arrested
- No Name Released of Victim in Homicide Case That Resulted in SWAT Searching China Creek
- Human Remains Located on SoHum Property
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Why was such a popular guy be homeless ?? Let alone be killed .RIP
Loved people are murdered everyday. Read his obituary below ahole
Popularity doesn’t pay rent and not everyone can permanently or even temporarily house a friend. He wasn’t in the pot industry and that decreases your chance of being able to afford to live in beautiful So Hum. Most people killed are nice, niceness is a weakness, always has been. Unless your over 50 and we’ll established with lots of people backing you from decades of being a local then nice isn’t a good attribute to display in Humboldt, it’s a recipe for victimization, be it theft, rape or murder.
And we wonder why we can’t attract new teachers, doctors, etc. Unless you are dealing weed, you can’t afford to live here.
Exactly!
Perhaps we should consider private security teams to patrol our towns. The govt cant seem to protect us. The mafia worked well for people who were being ripped off and harassed, it didn’t happen. They just paid a small stipend per month, and all was well. People cannot afford to live here because of all the taxes and regulations. In 1997, we paid $800 for our building permit, $150 for the septic. Try to do that today. Calif, run by democrats, has hurt so many, especially the poor and working poor.
My hope is to make it understood that this was NOT a shooting death… but a kidnapping, stabbing, dismemberment and TOTAL FAILURE on the part of your local law enforcement. THIS IS FROM A HORROR MOVIE!! JUSTICE for JASON!
…I’ll go ahead and REPEAT what actually happened… this was NOT a shooting death. It was a stabbing and TOTALLY HEINOUS DISMEMBERMENT of a HUMAN BEING..
RIP—- just doesn’t seem to cut it…
ANYONE can become homeless. Thats what so many dim-witted people never seem to get. Then they just throw ‘homeless’ in with ‘drunk’ and ‘addict’. Its so sad and frustrating that people are so ignorant and cold.
You mean the dim witted ones who manage to keep a roof over their heads (and their families’)throughout their lives? You’re right in one respect- it is possible to be without a home, especially for short periods. However the possibility makes some work hard and long to keep it from happening. Whereas substance abuse and quitting make a possibility turn into a probability.
Guest is right. Sobriety,determination and hard work does wonders on keeping a roof over your head.
Actually guest is wrong and so are you. The cure for addiction is connection to other humans. Your beliefs based on privilege and ignorance, actually make the problem worse because it serves to leave the person who is scarred and using substances to medicate their pain, even more isolated. Nowhere in this country can a person work a minimum wage job and afford an apartment. Please stop lying to yourselves and blaming the victims of a system that is inhumane and causes substance issues by design. Give addicts a hug instead of hate!
[edit] the dude was a chef at benbow for years and after loosing his job took too cutting fire wood i personally cut over 20 cord with that dude in one season he worked alot fucking harder than you ever will so suckit
Instead of grief counseling, how about therapists to teach the community how to survive while psychopaths run free and the cops do nothing?
And get the therapists to talk with law enforcement, about taking complaints about violent individuals seriously, and educating LEOs about their duty to intervene.
When the cops wont step in until someone gets murdered or disappears, everyone has to live with the loose cannons or risk being their next victim, and it sucks.
Counseling the community won’t fix that problem.
guest~ our goal with this counseling is to meet immediate needs of those who knew Jason and how best to cope with this loss of his life. I totally agree we need to be proactive. We are working together as a community to address these needs.
Thank you for your service.
Immediate needs. It’s been a week and a half.
I’m certain the killer was captured, he isn’t running free. If you’re generalizing, well there are killers in every corner of the earth.
I’m sure it’s difficult for law enforcement to take kindly to a community that’s mostly underground and fought for decades to not have law enforcement involved in their community.
We welcomed law enforcement when they came to help someone, but most of the time they came to enforce Reagan’s war against marijuana, and in a brutal fashion. Just ask any of the early COGers what the policing was like back then. Scary shit.
Not disagreeing with you one bit.
Please expand on this “brutal fashion”. I lived in Arcata during the 80’s and 90’s and never experienced a CAMP raid, so all I knew was what was presented in the news media. If the reality on the ground was different it would be interesting to know.
I come from the east coast and have only lived in Humboldt for about a year but I’ve never seen a homeless problem like there is here. It is so sad and disheartening and these people need help, specifically psychiatric hel. Often they might have started with a mental illness that led to them becoming an addict by self-medicating or they were an addict and developed a mental illness from drug use. Where I come from people those situations are treated by a psychiatrist and I personally am clean and sober because of the treatment I received back home. There are zero, that’s right zero psychiatrists. there’s one that only sees postpartum and adolescent patients and the other one is an elderly man who picks and chooses his patients based on phone conversations. I found him to be rude,condescending, and narcissistic. So I decided not to see him. What is going on here??? This is disgraceful! I wish I had made it to the second district meeting yesterday and could have asked the five people that are running which one of them is going to find at least one eligible psychiatrist that is willing to move to Humboldt and treat people in Humboldt so they don’t have to drive for 3 hours for an appointment, but I could not go. I feel so helpless for them. I help put toiletries together and have gone to help feed them as well. I pray for them often. Someone in power needs to understand the dire needs for psychiatric care in this county!
Well the problem here in humboldt, espessially sohum is we only have so much revenue and that is used up arguing about what they’re going to do with the revenue. So the result is nothing. We get a occasional pothole fixed and the homelesss get a government tent when it’s real cold. It’s a tried and true system really.
Psychiatry kills yo.
We need to work on being kind. A friend who listens is better than any psych drug…which is all a psychiatrists do; hand out poison pills with Black Box warnings.
Community. Not pills.
Being tolerant is the problem. Is being kind throwing needles and feces on our sidewalks? Is being kind stealing anything and everything that is not locked down and guarded with your life? Is being kind taking advantage of others who are helping you? 75% of these able bodied street junkies wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. I will help and have helped those who actually want to change and help themselves. We as a community,county and state are being manipulated because of our “kindness”. keep voting in laws that enable this behavior and actions and i will guarantee….. nothing will change, no matter how kind you are.
To the friends of Jason, I’m sure he was a kind person who had no intentions on harming anyone. I didn’t know him so I will not pass judgment, but than again I don’t hang out with drug addicts either.
I’ll bet you do hang out with drug addicts, you just don’t realize it.
I feel like the cops have the wrong suspect. None of the story feels true. I suggest detaining and questioning the others involved. As far as I have know, Ryan has never mentioned anything about this guy. But Chris and Natalie he has had problems with. I am truly sorry for your loss. My condolences to friends and family. Nothing like this should ever happen.
Shooting death?????? REALLY!!! (*^*(*^(*&%)*&)%&^%)(*& YOU!!!! Humboldt! How about you use the words “DISMEMEBERED”!!! Cause THAT is what happened…
Shooting death?????? REALLY!!! (*^*(*^(*&%)*&)%&^%)(*& YOU!!!! Humboldt! How about t you use the words “DISMEMEBERED”!!! Cause THAT is what happened…
Do people realize that this murderer and others are standing in line at the grocery store with you. They don’t just go to the mountains to kill some live right next door to you. You dont have the revenue well maybe it will be you or your loved one next
this is true that fucker had been doing shit like that for years he would only fuck with people that he diddnt recognise way out in the woods. people that knew him his whole life knew he was fucked up and avoided him like the plague but maybe if somebody that knew what kind of shit he was up too turned him in or did something about it shit like this wouldnt happen. moral of the story that weird fucker out in the woods that is into weird ass shit and you know has a penchant of violence that youd rather not think about… thats ryan all the way. too manny people do maney ass shit out in the woods and think they can get away with it and people that know about let them look where it leads
Jason was one of my best friends. we where both dishwashers and then line cooks at the benbow in for years together. He was skilled and talented in many trades as well and a hella good person. Its not like he was a bum either. he worked hard diddnt steal he had his own truck a 2000 something silverado and earned money by cutting fire wood. pretty likable guy and its a shame he got killed by that psycho tanner one of a few of that piece of shits victims and i think the biggest shame about this whole thing apart from the fact my friends dead is that the fucker had been doing shit like this for years un checked. ( the guy that got creamed on the quad in china creek as well as a few other disappearances in the area over the years. he even fucked up dude i know( local kid named devin) that made the mistake of working for him by tying him to a chair and torturing him and god knows what and he was lucky too escape. anyway fuck Ryan tanner he needs too die im glad that jasons dog leonard bit the fuck out of him [edit]