Ohio Shooting Puts Face on Foreclosure Crisis
Sunday 12 October 2008
by: The Associated Press
A neighbor points to the bedroom where Addie Polk, 90, shot herself while facing eviction from her home. (Photo: AP)
Akron, Ohio – By the time deputies came to escort Addie Polk out of her home of 38 years, the 90-year-old had taken out her life insurance policy and placed it next to her pocketbook and keys in the neatly kept house.
She shot herself in the chest Oct. 1 before she could be taken away from the foreclosed house, which was worth less than its mortgage from the day she took out the loan.