Aprile Cardon is breaking the silence regarding the case of her brother, Matthew Cardon, a man who was shot and killed on June 5 by police after an alleged kidnapping attempt on a woman and her baby.
Cardon remembers her brother not as a kidnapper or a criminal, but as a loving, compassionate brother who was suffering from mental illness.
“I feel like that’s not who he was; his disability and his problems wasn’t who he was,” Cardon said. “He was a nurse, he was a father, he was a best friend to Andy, his other brother, and I. He was someone who cared deeply about family. He just wanted all the family to be close and to be loving and spend a lot of time together.”…