By Jamal Thalji and Kameel Stanley, Times Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
ST. PETERSBURG — He apologized until his voice was drowned out by tears.
A day after his brother killed two St. Petersburg police officers, Darrell Lacy said his family was "deeply sorry for the families" of Sgt. Thomas J. Baitinger and Officer Jeffrey A. Yaslowitz.
"I would like to say on behalf of the Lacy family that we are sorry for what happened," Darrell Lacy said Tuesday in a phone call to the St. Petersburg Times.
Baitinger and Yaslowitz were shot to death Monday when an attempt to arrest a wanted fugitive turned into a series of deadly shoot-outs, heroic rescues and a dramatic siege on a neighborhood street.
The Lacy siblings of local boxing legend Jeff Lacy also say they have no illusions about how their oldest brother met his end.
"He committed a horrible act that ...