AUSTIN (KXAN) — Before March of this year, Anna Mendivil and Carmen Castillo were strangers.
Mendivil was about six months into grieving the loss of her 17-year-old son Erick. Castillo had no idea her brother was about to be killed. And neither could fathom the same person would allegedly be the one with the gun.
Mendivil’s son Erick was shot and killed in Buda in August.
“No one understands until you go through it how traumatic that is,” she said. “The waking up at night, crying, nightmares.”…