Nika Bartoo-Smith
Four years ago, Lacy Murillo answered a call from an unknown number only to be informed by a detective with the Lane County Sheriff’s Department that her brother, Manuel Bayya, was missing. Family and community members are organizing a rally in his honor on March 27 at 11:30 a.m. in Eugene, Oregon.
“Manuel going missing really changed my life,” Murillo said. “I got clean and sober a month after he went missing. It just made me see things different and him going missing made me crazy. I used to be numb, but I couldn’t do enough drugs to be numb to that.”…