briefly worked for Treme in set construction and on the security crew. However, on August 1, 2012, he was found dead at the age of 35, from an apparent drug overdose. Khandi Alexander and Clarke Peters later starred in Simon's television series Treme (April 11, 2010-December 29, 2013), and DeAndre McCullough (who also played a bit role in The Corner, as a policeman who arrested 15-year-old DeAndre) briefly worked on the show's security crew. Rita Hale: "The doctor" at a shooting gallery (a townhouse where people come to get high). She injects patrons "whose veins have retreated to portions of their bodies that can only be reached by a second party", in exchange for drugs. Tyreeka Freamon: DeAndre's on-again/off-again girlfriend. George "Blue" Epps: runs a shooting gallery from his house where people come to shoot drugs. He has been on the corner for a long time and is regarded as the corner's local artist. Ella Thompson: runs the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center for the corner's children, shielding them as best she can from what lies outside the playground's chain-link fence. Bob Brown: a Western District police officer who is feared by congregants of the corner due his harsh treatment of drug dealers, while he remains feared by those involved in drugs, he is shown to also treat the law abiding and elderly citizens respectfully, many of whom act as his informants letting him secretly use their residences to spy on drug dealers. Veronica "Ronnie" Boice: Gary McCollough's on-again/off-again girlfriend. Rose Davis, aka Miss Rose: works at Francis M. Woods School and is known for letting students back into school after lengthy truancies. Curtis "Fat Curt" Davis, an ailing junkie with a 25-year-old habit, who frequents Blue's shooting gallery and supports his habit as a tout for street dealers. Impact Critical response Richard Price, author of Clockers and later a co-writer of The Wire with the two authors, said that "The Corner is an intimate, intense dispatch from the broken heart of urban America. It is impossible to read these pages and not feel stunned at the high price, in human potential, in thwarted aspirations, that simple survival on the streets of West Baltimore demands of its citizens. An important document, as devastating as it is lucid." The Seattle Times said that in terms of providing the reader access to the secret world of the urban drug trade the