PORT CHARLOTTE — After celebrating the 2023 holiday break with her son, Sawyer Updike, Sheri Roberts-Updike was sad to see him leave again.
Sawyer Updike was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Texas, his dream school, she reminded herself. Reluctantly, Roberts-Updike drove her son to the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.
It would be the last time she would see him alive…