Nightengale's Notebook: After decades apart, LaTroy Hawkins gets to celebrate MLB success with his brother

DENVER — The harrowing telephone call came to LaTroy Hawkins’ home nearly 24 years ago.

It was his mother.

It was about Ronald, LaTroy’s younger brother.

Deborah was sobbing uncontrollably trying to tell LaTroy the news, and he couldn’t quite make out the words.

Ronald Sewood had been convicted, along with two others, of carjacking and using a firearm in his hometown of Gary, Indiana, and now was receiving his sentence on Dec. 2, 1997, in the Federal District Court in Hammond, Indiana.

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Three-hundred and twenty-seven months.