SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A Shreveport family says they’re now finding out the death of their brother, which was presented to them as a suicide, was actually murder.

Shawn Reed, a graduate of Captain Shreve High who served 10 years in the United States Army, was found dead in September in Louisville, Ky., where he had taken a job after retiring from the military. Reed’s wife, 33-year-old Aleshia Reed, who used to live in Bossier City, initially told his family he took his own life.

“There was nothing in my heart or my mind whatever made me think he did,” said Lola Morris, Shawn’s older sister.

Family questioned suicide claim

Aleshia told the family Shawn was devastated by his older brother’s murder just a week before in Colorado. But Shawn’s sisters and brother thought something wasn’t

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