An item last week about Charlie Neeper, a homeless man who was killed in 1986 in Veterans Park in Dundalk, keeps generating comments. The case was in the news this month because police made an arrest, 22 years after Charlie was killed in an argument over a bottle of wine.

Charlie certainly made an impact. The former beat cop remembers him. So did a former prosecutor who worked on many of his arrests. This weekend, I heard from a man who grew up near the park, and had his own unique experiences with Charlie:

I remember Charlie as a young teenager, he would buy us our beer in exchange for a bottle of wine. Sometimes Muskatell or Bali Hi. When the winter came Charlie would break some law just to be put away for the winter. He was a harmless wino as was Al Reese. I know what Charlie did was not right serving us alcohol, but we knew of his weakness and took advantage of it. I look back on it now and feel guilty of it, but that was it was for a lot of homeless men. I'm glad the police kept searching for his killer and found him. I can look back and remember him as a funny but sad man. R.I.P. Charlie Neeper and God bless you. Michael Reilly