After talking to investigators at the scene, Ryan Lockhart said the victim was his older brother, Mike Lockhart, who turned 60 in January. Lockhart learned of his brother’s death when his girlfriend sent him an online news story about the fire. He said he could see his brother’s van in the background of the photograph. “My brother Mike’s been living down here since last year,” said a tearful Lockhart. “My mother passed away a couple of years ago and he didn’t quite recover from it. So he turned to drinking and that was his thing. He didn’t want to have a regular job.”
People with severe mental illness need more than a roof over their heads — they need wraparound services and care, Victoria Police Chief Del Manak said Thursday. “We have to recognize that . . .