Don’t miss this week’s feature piece by Nina Shapiro, which tells the heartbreaking story of Noel Lopez, who arrived in Seattle from Texas several years ago, spiraled into mental illness, and ended up being brutally murdered by the Seattle street kids he sought to befriend. As part of the story, we sent Alice Wheeler, the Northwest’s most gifted chronicler of street culture, to document the scene at Westlake, the center of downtown’s homeless youth. Click the link for a slideshow of her photographs.