ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Barrett lived outside the lines, his sister Catherine Renfro recalls. He liked sports. Everyone loved being around him. He certainly kept his siblings and parents on their toes.
When he called Renfro at 2:22 a.m. 17 years ago, she answered the phone to hear a 24-year-old Barrett screaming her name, “Catherine.” He’d had a tough night, had gone to a bar, argued with friends and drank too much.
“My brother had a history of struggling with alcohol usage and some drug usage, but he had been clean for a little while up until this point,” Renfro recalled. “He just kept saying, ‘I can’t keep doing this to you guys.’ And he told me he was going to take his life. And I begged him not to do it.”…