It’s a mystery why Michael Wright collapsed on Main Street

Michael Wright, 43, a homeless man who lives in the woods behind the car wash on Sumpter Road, collapsed in the middle of Main Street on July 1 and he said he doesn’t know why that happened.
Wright said he had planned to meet a friend at the Red Roof Inn, so he stayed there over night, but she didn’t show up. He said he left the Red Roof at around 9:30 or 10 a.m. and began walking back to Belleville.
He said at the Shell gas station he blacked out.
“I remember the Shell gas station and then I woke up in the hospital,” Wright said.
He said Belleville Police Officer Jeff Wickham and Belleville Fire Department tended to him when he collapsed in the middle of Main Street in front of Andrew’s Drugs.
He said he was taken to Annapolis Hospital and they did drug tests and ultra sounds of his brain and heart and they all came out clean. There was no reason for him to collapse.
Wright said he had been a drug addict, but has been on Suboxone for a year and a half, so he is clean of drugs. He said he did professional wrestling from 1995 to 2006 and had many concussions.
He has worked for Burhop’s Collision in Belleville for two years and so he has money for an apartment, but, he said, no one will rent to him.
Wright grew up on Bemis Road in Sumpter Township where his father was a back-yard mechanic. One day the lift malfunctioned and fell on his father, who was paralyzed and later died, Wright said.
Wright was part of the Belleville High School class of 1993, but quit in his second try at the 10th grade. He said the teachers hated him.
Wright explained he and his mother were unable to keep the house after his father’s death and so they moved to a mobile home community. He said his mother died in his arms of a brain aneurism. He lost the home and for the last four years he has been homeless.
Wright really would like to know what made him collapse. He said he talked to a local minister who told him he may have been possessed.
Belleville Police Chief Hal Berriman said that Officer Wickham reported that the fire fighters said Wright’s eyes were pinpointed, which could indicate he was back on drugs. He had been a heroin addict.
Chief Berriman said the report of the incident also said Wright said when he left the Red Roof Inn, he had $400 in his pocket. When he came to at the hospital, he was missing $200, according to the report.