Claudette Sutherland is in her Lehigh Acres, Florida, home sitting in her son’s vacant bedroom.
Her eyes, filled with tears, scan the awards and newspaper clippings posted on his walls as she reflects on the recent events in her youngest child’s life.
A basketball clipping from a 2015 News-Press article reads “Dunbar Senior Chris Sutherland is All-State Second Team” and another that is a simple headshot of Sutherland as a high school senior, sporting a white Nike headband and dawning a medal around his neck, this clipping highlighting his District 2A-12 third-place finish in high jump.