By BEN MUIR | Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. | Published: March 12, 2021
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (Tribune News Service) — Keri A. Locklear never wanted to be the matriarch of her family — the one who shakes off tears during a tragedy — but when she got a call two weeks ago in her Evans Mills home that her sister had been shot to death and that her son was accused of pulling the trigger, she was left with no choice.
"It's almost like I've had to coat my entire heart with a bottle of Icy Hot," she said. "There's just no other way for me to be able to grasp what has truly happened, and I hate to make it about myself — because it's not about me — but my God, I just don't know how much more a human being can take."