Family loses 2nd brother in 7 months

Thomas Baroni-Abrego’s family is reeling from the death of two brothers and two nieces in less than a year. Baroni-Abrego was shot and killed in an apparent robbery Sunday in north Spokane. His death came seven months after his older brother and two nieces were killed by an alleged drunken driver near Athol, Idaho. “Never would I have imagined that this much tragedy would plague our family, but here we are drowning in tears,” Baroni-Abrego’s sister Catherine Abrego said in an email. In a way it feels selfish to grieve when there is such horror in the world, but at the same time the attack in Brussels seems all the more personal knowing what the families who lost loved one are going through,” she wrote. “Why do we have to live in such a painful world?”/ Eli Francovich , SR. More here. (Thomas Baroni-Abrego/Cat Abrego courtesy photo)