Updated: 6:50 PM EDT May 1, 2021 WXII12.com Web Staff Sommer Barnes lost her mother, stepfather and brother Wednesday during the hours-long standoff in Boone.She spoke with our NBC affiliate, WCNC, about what may have led her brother, 32-year-old Isaac Alton Barnes, to the standoff that also killed two Watauga County deputies.Sommer Barnes told WCNC that her brother was sometimes eccentric and quirky, but it wasn t until about two years ago that her family noticed a change.“He seemed paranoid and delusional and he was just afraid,” Sommer Barnes told WCNC.The family had been trying to get Isaac Barnes help since that point, with support groups and reaching out to advocates like the National Alliance on Mental Illness, but the resources weren t there to help him, according to WCNC.“If we could have forced him into it, we would have, but there’s just not a way to do that with an adult,” Sommer Barnes told WCNC. “Any suggestion we made that he needed
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