. >> reporter: carla shafer is the director of the streets of hope, a shelter that bounces around from church to church while it looks for a permanent building. it was going to settle last night before neighbors complained and since then it ended up here along a busy road and with a challenging distance to the closest bus stop. while this accident was incredibly unforce nate it may not have been avoidable, the driver was drunk, the police say twice the legal limit but norton was walking down this road from the bus stop on the way to the homeless shelter and you can see there is very little if any room to walk. >> he was very well loved and all of the men were upset when they heard and one was crying inconsolable as well as the staff. >> reporter: norton will be missed if not by his friends in the shelter but by the only family he had left. in baltimore county, brian cubeler abc2 news. >>> wow. some staff at the shelter have express the interest in adopting taco and giving him a home. while the accident was officially ruled by police as pedestrian error rentta was criminally charged by