One of Brasiel's old friends spoke about what he was like.
"Just a regular country guy, just a young boy getting a start in life," said the woman who didn't want to be identified. "Usually he's happy. I don't think I've ever seen him upset."
She said she last saw Brasiel on Thursday afternoon when he had come to her mother's house and was talking to them. She said Brasiel looked a little off that day.
"He had scratches on his arm and on the side of his face," she said. "My mother asked how he got them. He said he was walking in Brunswick, looking for a job, got too hot and passed out on the sidewalk."
The woman said Brasiel had been suicidal a couple of months ago and was hospitalized.