ST. LOUIS – It’s been nearly three years to the day since Thomas Russell was killed. But to his mother, Carolyn Boyd, it doesn’t feel that way.
“It seems like 10 minutes ago,” she said.
Russell, 29, was house-sitting for a friend at a home on Sells Avenue in the Baden neighborhood in north St. Louis when he was shot. It was just before noon Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023…