Yep. 8 of them and a few dogs died in a fire in an abandoned building a few years back. They were burning debris to keep warm.
Looks like he crawled out of the Atchafalaya after wrestling with the loup garou.
Pre-Katrina there was an effort to get them off the streets, but it doesn’t look like that worked well. I remember them drumming on plastic pails so people would give them money to stop the noise.