Social media star Shirley Raines dies after years helping homeless in LA

Known as Ms Shirley", she used TikTok to bring food, dignity and hope to Skid Row and beyond

Shirley Raines, a social media creator and non-profit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has died, her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz said Wednesday. She was 58.

Raines was known as Ms Shirley", to her more than 5 million TikTok followers and to the people who regularly lined up for the food, beauty treatments and hygiene supplies she brought to Los Angeles' Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada.