The sister of a 41-year-old man found dead of gunshot wounds Friday night in East St. Louis wants people to know that he had a loving family and wasn’t homeless, as authorities initially believed.
Charline Byrd said her brother, Terence E. LaShea, didn’t like to stay at the family’s Washington Park home, where he was surrounded by belongings and memories of his mother, Bridgette Williams, who was murdered seven years ago at age 56.
“My brother was just wandering,” Byrd said Tuesday. “He was in deep depression. He was troubled. He wanted to be out in society. He was a people person. He liked to be around people.”…