A San Francisco street ambassador who turned his life around after 23 years in prison was shot dead by a man he’d asked to stop using drugs outside of a public library, according to officials and colleagues.

Joey Alexander, who worked for non-profit Urban Alchemy, confronted someone for using drugs near children outside the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library on Friday when the man pulled out a shotgun and blasted him, the organization’s spokesperson Jess Montejano said.

The 60-year-old father of two died from his wounds on Tuesday. 3

“That was his beat, in front of the main library. He showed up to work every day when it was his shift,” Montejano told reporters on Wednesday, KRON reported .

When Alexander asked the man to stop, the man yelled “”f–k Urban Alchemy,’ p

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